Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread rajiv chavan
Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:08:52 +0530 Virtual Spam, rather rc On 8/19/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 10:56:04 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:49:56 -0400 >> >> doug wrote: >> > > I also installed PCLinuxOS, to check it has and does all what I need, >> > > so I w

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 10:56:04 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:49:56 -0400 > > doug wrote: > > > I also installed PCLinuxOS, to check it has and does all what I need, > > > so I will know if I can rely on it on the day when I decide to leave > > > Debian rather than abandon G

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread Ron
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:49:56 -0400 doug wrote: > > I also installed PCLinuxOS, to check it has and does all what I need, so I > > will know if I can rely on it on the day when I decide to leave Debian > > rather than abandon Gnu-Linux and shift to Systemd-Linux. > As a long-time user of pclos,

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:23:41 -0700 Mike Castle wrote: > With VirtualBox, one has the option to install a bunch of guess > additions that help the guest and host work better together. > > Is such needed/useful with KVM and friends? It's useful, but is not strictly needed. Qemu-kvm can emu

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread doug
On 08/18/2015 08:24 PM, Renaud OLGIATI (Ron) wrote: /snip/ The people at Virtualbox also warn you against using the binaries from distributions, but to get them from their own site. This said, I have been playing with it in recent days, mainly to get MS Windows without dual-boot; installed

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:58:58 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > > > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > > > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > > > install iso's. > > > I need advice on h

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
*...Bob* On 08/18/2015 07:43 PM, doug wrote: > > On 08/18/2015 07:17 PM, Bob Weber wrote: >> >>> > /snip/ >>> >> I also use the kvm/qemu packages. There is also a GUI that makes setting up >> and running VMs very easy. Its Virtual Machine Manager and it uses libvirtd >> to manage machines. I

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Mike Castle
With VirtualBox, one has the option to install a bunch of guess additions that help the guest and host work better together. Is such needed/useful with KVM and friends? FWIW, I use vbox as it comes with the installation, mostly because I'm too lazy to download the upstream version. Seems to wor

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 00:48:56 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > >

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > install iso's. > > I need advice on how to do this on Jessie. W

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Bob. On 18/08/15 19:06, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> # aptitude install qemu-kvm > I'll give it a shot. Good! That's the attitude! > Don't be surprised if you see me pop up here again! No problem :) >> # egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo > This shows two instances of 'svm', in r

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread doug
On 08/18/2015 07:17 PM, Bob Weber wrote: /snip/ I also use the kvm/qemu packages. There is also a GUI that makes setting up and running VMs very easy. Its Virtual Machine Manager and it uses libvirtd to manage machines. I have also at one time installed bsd and it ran fine. You can

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
** On 08/18/2015 06:06 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> # aptitude install qemu-kvm > > I'll give it a shot. Don't be surprised if you see me pop up here again! > >> # egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo > > This shows two instances of 'svm', in

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Daniel Bareiro wrote: # aptitude install qemu-kvm I'll give it a shot. Don't be surprised if you see me pop up here again! # egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo This shows two instances of 'svm', in red. Is that what I'm looking for? You should also che

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Bob. On 18/08/15 16:10, Bob Bernstein wrote: > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > install iso's. > > I need advice on how to do this on J

Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant install iso's. I need advice on how to do this on Jessie. What Debian virtualization packages do people like? I g