Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM wrote: > > On Wednesday, 17 July 2024 21:31:00 BST Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM jeremy ardley > wrote: > > > On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > [...] > > > There are alternatives that include: > > > > > > - KVM/QEMU > > > > >

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-18 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 19-07-2024 at 10:15 s...@swampdog.co.uk wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 July 2024 21:31:00 BST Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM jeremy ardley > wrote: > > > On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-18 Thread sd
On Wednesday, 17 July 2024 21:31:00 BST Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: > > > I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a > > > Windows host > > > to port some Linux libraries to Windows

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: > > I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a > > Windows host > > to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku > > language. > > > > I now have lots of m

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-17 Thread sd
On Wednesday, 17 July 2024 01:48:33 BST jeremy ardley wrote: > On 17/7/24 05:47, DdB wrote: [snip > Out of interest I have installed Windows XP under VirtualBox. It runs > really fast compared to the later bloatware versions of Windows. I installed XP (SP3) under KVM/QEMU (IDE disk). I wanted to

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 06:20 Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 01:45 jeremy ardley > wrote: > ... > > I appreciate your and others views on the Windows version I'm using. I am > using > 10 only because it's the only one I still have a key for, and I was able > to find a downloadable

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 01:45 jeremy ardley wrote: ... I appreciate your and others views on the Windows version I'm using. I am using 10 only because it's the only one I still have a key for, and I was able to find a downloadable iso file. I would happily use an older Windows if it has the capa

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
ср, 17 июл. 2024 г. в 10:35, jeremy ardley : > A basic linux LAMP server will fit on 10GB disk and can run on 1GB ram > with a swap file. Even lower and without swap for basic usage with optimized setup (mostly --no-install-recommends) At my work (small hosting provider) we sell vds from 512M RAM

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread jeremy ardley
On 17/7/24 05:47, DdB wrote: Since you do not object to the use of current Windows, i would be surprised, if it would be impossible to run it in vbox. One thing though: Back in the days, i was using commodity hardware, limiting the things, i could do. My current box has plenty of RAM, processi

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 17-07-2024 at 07:47 DdB wrote: > Am 16.07.2024 um 16:31 schrieb jeremy ardley: > > VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. > OMG, that came as a shock to me! > ... because i am relying on vbox since more than a decade now. (It began > on Windows Vista, next Ubuntu was my OS, and

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Le 16/07/2024 à 16:31, jeremy ardley a écrit : VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. why ? I use it daily and it works well on my debian 12... There are alternatives that include: - KVM/QEMU - VMWare Workstation Pro (which is now free for private use) cool ! will try it too :)

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread DdB
Am 16.07.2024 um 16:31 schrieb jeremy ardley: > VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. OMG, that came as a shock to me! ... because i am relying on vbox since more than a decade now. (It began on Windows Vista, next Ubuntu was my OS, and Windows kept running in a VM. Next i switched to debian (O

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM wrote: ... > I use it every day. Mind you, I'm running XP, > but I do Windows program development on it and it runs just > fine. I give it 512MB of memory, and programs run on it at > least as fast as on a native Windows box. Thanks, but I now have a good solut

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:06 Kent West wrote: ... > I use "Virtual Machine Manager" now, instead of VirtualBox (mostly > because of the more-libre licensing; last I used VB, you had to use > their proprietary pay-for add-on for USB3 support, if I recall > correctly), but I used to use VB. Thank

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread cgibbs
On Tue Jul 16 11:11:54 2024 jeremy ardley wrote: > On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: > >> I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for >> a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to >> support the Raku language. > > Thus my question is: Has anyo

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 09:42 jeremy ardley wrote: … > VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. > There are alternatives that include: > > - KVM/QEMU > > - VMWare Workstation Pro (which is now free for private use) > > In my experience KVM/QEMU is fairly stable. The VMWare product not so much.

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread jeremy ardley
On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Kent West
On 7/16/24 6:31 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it b

VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it before, and my use case is much different. Th