Talking about installing Linux into a VM, I used to use Vagrant. I say "used to" because I haven't run my own VM hypervisor in a while as just about everything I do is either in Docker or in The Cloud.
Regards, - Robert On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:52 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 05:06 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > I spent two hours trying to get Virtualbox to recognize either the > > optical drive or a USB drive where I had installed the Live Debian 12 > > ISO that I downloaded. I finally succeeded at getting the virtual > > machine to use the optical drive, although I failed with the USB drive. > > . > > > Not saying that what you try to do (boot ISO from USB stick in VM) should > not be done "damn it!" - BUT - it is certainly not the easiest way to > install stuff in VM, as you have found. > > The way to go is to: > * add optical drive to vBox > * load the .iso file to the optical drive in gui or using command line > * boot from the virtual optical drive with .iso inserted. > > Hope it helps, Tomas > > > >
