[conspire] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: VirtualBox

[Paul Zander]

> KVM's not hard to use.  You use -hda to give is a filename for a hard

> drive and -cdrom to give it an iso file and -boot d to tell it to boot
> from the iso for your install, and omit those two arguments
> thereafter. 


Tony, 

You missed all the past discussion that there is no .iso.  

Just a .vmdk file created from the installed windows.
There is good reason to expect that Virtual box will work with vmdk files.
Possibly KVM will also work, but ...



----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Godshall <togo at of.net>
To: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Cc: conspire <conspire at linuxmafia.com>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [conspire] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: VirtualBox

Hard drives are cheap and you can get good improvements in capacity
and performance by swapping hard drives.

And there's value in keeping the old one as a backup, like DG says.

I like SSHDs- they don't cost much more than pure spinning media and
they give you a lot of the performance boost of SSDs.

GNOME Boxes?  Hmmm...

"Boxes is a GNOME application in Fedora that is used to create,
manage, and run virtual machines. It was designed with simplicity and
ease of use in mind, building upon the harder to use qemu-based
virt-manager.Feb 2, 2015"

KVM's not hard to use.  You use -hda to give is a filename for a hard
drive and -cdrom to give it an iso file and -boot d to tell it to boot
from the iso for your install, and omit those two arguments
thereafter.  And you can also use other simple arguments to reserve it
more memory or have it be VNC-connectable or whatever.  You do need a
CPU with virtualization capability (and enabled in your BIOS), since
KVM doesn't degrade to a poorly performing mode if it can't modprobe
kvm.
# man kvm
# man kvm-qemu

I'm not sure super easy to use point and click is good in beneficial
for things like this.  You lose scriptability.



On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 22:16 +0000, Paul Zander wrote:
>> 1) back up all of the crazy partitions that Dell created.  (Remind me
>> to think twice about another Dell computer even if the price is marked
>> down.)
>
> Screw all that and just swap the hard disk. That way, you keep the
> original as a backup.
>
> If you want to run Windows under KVM, I repeat from my message on
> Friday: Take a serious look at GNOME Boxes.
>
>
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