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 lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 19 August 2015 10:56:04 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:49:56 -0400 doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: I also installed PCLinuxOS, to check it has and

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 dmcgarr...@optonline.net 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

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:23:41 -0700 Mike Castle dalgoda+deb...@gmail.com 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

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-19 Thread Ron
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:49:56 -0400 doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net 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

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

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 Jessie.

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 red. Is

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. What

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 install

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:58:58 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com 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

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 red. Is

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 have also at one

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 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

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 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