[PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box
King Beowulf
kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 21:59:01 UTC 2014
On 08/03/2014 10:11 AM, Damo Gets wrote:
> G'morning Dick & King Beowulf.
>
> Couldn't help but notice that you both were talking about utilizing
> VirtualBox here. I just wanted to mention my experiences with this
> suite.
>
> I've had to rely on it at several points in the past, during low budget
> periods of geeking out. It worked very well for me for awhile; that
> is, until I started having some hard crashes for my host, while the VM
> was running.
>
> It wasn't until this had happened a couple of times that I ran into an
> unrecoverable situation, but I'd had friends with more IT experience
> than myself telling me for some time to migrate away from Virtual Box
> due to its fondness for eating disk images.
>
...
> So I guess, yeah, I just wanted to mention, tread softly on that
> beast. If you're doing anything involved, it might be a lot better to
> go with VMWare, or the like. I've never had any problems with VMWare,
> ever.
>
> Just my own experiences in the matter. Best wishes, y'all!
>
>
> --
>
> Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the owner of this
> corporeal, rotting porksuit, nor its fiat-currency waving handlers.
>
> -Damo
>
For just fooling around, VirtualBox is fine. Its easy to set up and
use. I don't think Dick was worried about a "production environment"
but was just looking for an easy way to install and test new linux distros.
Sure, Vbox can be a bit flaky. That's why I use QEMU instead.
-Ed
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