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golinux

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## Virtual Box

Fri Nov 28, 2014 2:38 am

Kinda stupid question . . .
The last time I played with VB, I had to get it from Oracle. Now I see that there are .debs in the repos. I assume I should be installing from the repos not Oracle.
All this because of systemd and so far, no working BSD flavor live disks.
fsmithred

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## Re: Virtual Box

Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:09 am

I've gone back and forth between the open source and Sun/Oracle versions a few times. If you use the oracle version, it'll work with usb, but it'll also hassle you frequently about newer versions. When you get the newer version, you also have to update the guest additions. Every time I do that, I lose shared clipboard for awhile, and it's annoying. I miss using the debian version, but I'm too lazy to switch again. If you switch, you have to do stuff with all the VMs to get them recognized, and right now, I have a bunch.
Edit: I believe slackware has some scripts to make a live system. I looked at them quickly in zenwalk, which I have installed in vbox, but I haven't done anything with it. I used zenwalk for a year before I switched to debian, and I liked it pretty well. That was my introduction to xfce.
I'm reserving judgment on systemd. See what happens with RHEL7 and jessie in the field. Maybe next year we'll be doing reslacta.
golinux

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## Re: Virtual Box

Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:40 am

> fsmithred wrote:I've gone back and forth between the open source and Sun/Oracle versions a few times. If you use the oracle version, it'll work with usb, but it'll also hassle you frequently about newer versions. When you get the newer version, you also have to update the guest additions. Every time I do that, I lose shared clipboard for awhile, and it's annoying. I miss using the debian version, but I'm too lazy to switch again. If you switch, you have to do stuff with all the VMs to get them recognized, and right now, I have a bunch.

Thanks. I guess I'll go with the Debian version for Wheezy. If USB support becomes an issue, I can purge and get it from Oracle.

> fsmithred wrote:IEdit: I believe slackware has some scripts to make a live system. I looked at them quickly in zenwalk, which I have installed in vbox, but I haven't done anything with it. I used zenwalk for a year before I switched to debian, and I liked it pretty well. That was my introduction to xfce.
> I'm reserving judgment on systemd. See what happens with RHEL7 and jessie in the field. Maybe next year we'll be doing reslacta.

Here's another possibility. I sure hope they can pull it off . . .
I've seen you over on the debianfork IRC but not often. I can't keep up with the volume but have seen a few interesting things.
thwak

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## Re: Virtual Box

Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:58 am

> Edit: I believe slackware has some scripts to make a live system. I looked at them quickly in zenwalk,

porteus.org
based on slackware, has an impressive "live builder" (er, choose your components and it autobuilds a live linux iso) embedded into their website.
If you inquire, hopefully they'll be willing to share the sourcecode for their slackbuilder scripts.
Also, check out the USM universal package manager (year old project underway by one of the porteus devs)
nadir

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## Re: Virtual Box

Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:56 am

If the USB issue will be only about USB-sticks,
you could simply make the stick a shared-folder.
If it is for something like cameras and printers and such, i don't know (probably the other VB version).
Anyway: i would go for the Debian version, until i run into something i really need. It works well, at least on 32.
golinux

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## Re: Virtual Box

Fri Nov 28, 2014 6:42 pm

> nadir wrote:If the USB issue will be only about USB-sticks,
> you could simply make the stick a shared-folder.
> If it is for something like cameras and printers and such, i don't know (probably the other VB version).
> Anyway: i would go for the Debian version, until i run into something i really need. It works well, at least on 32.

Thanks. Guess I'll go that route . . .
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