VirtualBox? Or Libre Alternatives
I notice that VB does not seem to be present in the repositories. I would assume this is because it is not properly libre? Either way, I am still interested in using virtualization for testing out things, so what would my alternative be, or how would I go about adding VB?
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QEMU/KVM should do the trick. Here's Trisquel in a QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine.
In Parabola run this to install all the known libre virts below,
sudo pacman -Su --noconfirm --needed qemu xen libvirt virt-install virt-manager virt-viewer libvirt-openrc
You should have missed Xen in a reply. :)
However, any other libre virtualizations other than QEMU, KVM, Xen, LibVirt, virt-install, virt-manager?
Debian has easy instructions to go by.
All I did to get Trisquel run in a Virtual Machine was to install these packages.
sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system
sudo apt install virt-manager
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon
Recently, I had a "default network not active" error. Here's the fix.
sudo virsh net-start default
http://ask.xmodulo.com/network-default-is-not-active.html
Add your [username] to some groups, so that the VM can be started as a regular user.
As root, type:
adduser [username] libvirt
adduser [username] libvirt-qemu
Debian 4.0 Etch (2007--2008) in Qemu-KVM. Talking about software bloat: this system (live) fits on a single CD-ROM. Back in the day when it used to be lean.
ChanceH, VirtualBox is totally nonfree according to the Parabola "your-freedom" blacklist. :)