I currently run Vortexbox upstairs in a VM on ax XP Host ...
where will all your music be stored ? If it is currently stored on the
windows machine, you will need to connect/mount that folder , or simply
copy the library.
My vote goes to debian stable (+slimdevices stable).
I run mostly Lenny (oldstable) with backports or Squeeze (stable)
machines in kvm-qemu. The host is a Lenny machine with backports.
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epoch1970
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Squeezebox Server
+1 for VortexBox in a VM.
I've moved to this from a WinVista of similar processing power.
On Workstation 6.5, I'm running VBox in 512MB of memory and it's still
50% faster than WinVista with 3 Gigs. All the music is on a NAS in both
cases.
Even with that small amount of memory allocated, the
For many years, I've run Squeezebox Server on a Windows machine (XP,
Vista, Windows 7) sitting in a closet of the house.
I am now moving to a home-built VMware machine (VSphere ESXi 5.0) and I
want to shift my SBS over to a Linux-based virtual machine.
This is NOT meant to start any religious
i say that the rpm build has almost no issues . The debian repo can be
somewhat unorganised .
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Debian is a great server OS though, and I've run SBS on it for years
with no problems. I don't run the betas though, and I know they've had
some issues with the repository for these.
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paulster
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Anything Debian based. Ubuntu LTS releases are a good choice, although
you may want to start with 11.10 and upgrade to 12.04 LTS when it's
ready. The won't be substantially different compared to going from
10.04 to 12.04.
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SuperQ
I've been plenty happy with Ubuntu and Debian, although it's true that
the naming on the repos (stable/testing/unstable) is sometimes wrong.
Also consider Vortexbox, which is based on Fedora. If the VM's sole
purpose is to run SBS, then there is no other solution that is better
at just works out
aubuti;668173 Wrote:
I've been plenty happy with Ubuntu and Debian, although it's true that
the naming on the repos (stable/testing/unstable) is sometimes wrong.
Also consider Vortexbox, which is based on Fedora. If the VM's sole
purpose is to run SBS, then there is no other solution that is
