VirtualBox? Or Libre Alternatives

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ChanceH
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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?

Thankyou

aloniv

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loldier
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QEMU/KVM should do the trick. Here's Trisquel in a QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine.

trisquel_qemukvm.png trisquel_virtman.png trisquel_qemukvm_2.png
gd_scania
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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?

loldier
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Debian has easy instructions to go by.

https://wiki.debian.org/KVM

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

ubu_virt.png
loldier
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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.

debian_etch_gimpinst_2.png debian_etch.png debian_etch_wallp.png 2018-11-22-211416_1280x1024_scrot.png debian_etch_term.png
gd_scania
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ChanceH, VirtualBox is totally nonfree according to the Parabola "your-freedom" blacklist. :)