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Fun with #virtualbox 
The current guest additions for #windows 7 are not working. Using the 7.1.4 addtions though work. In case anyone has problems with running older #windows versions in #virtualbox 
download.virtualbox.orgIndex of http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.1.4
@JackTheCat @TheBreadmonkey It depends what you want to do really. In some cases a windows VM will work, but getting data to flow between the VM and your Linux host can be a #PITA. I haven't used VMs on Linux for *quite* a while, but the easiest used to be #VirtualBox. I'd avoid VMWare Workstation, if that's even still a thing.
In my experience, WINE is *usually* the best answer if you can't get a native Linux-based *alternative* program for the thing you want to do. A lot of new Linux users still think in terms of how they used to do things on Windoze, and that will get you a reasonable way, but you'll end up fighting with the fact that Linux simply IS NOT Windoze. It doesn't do much, if anything, like windoze does - particularly at the "binary" level, so native windows programs (.EXEs) simply can't run without something to "pretend" that windoze is really there. That's what WINE does, and although others have tried for DECADES to make a compatability layer, starting with SUN's WABI (Windows Application Binary Interface) back in the 90's. Nobody seems to have managed to get as far as WINE in making it come true, without using a VM.
So before diving into the potential nightmare of "getting $favourite windows program" working on Linux, check out any native alternatives first. If there really *aren't* any native alternatives, and you have a load of windoze apps you absolutely *have* to have, Linux might not be for you.
@xdydx that's weird. VM installation should work out if boxm I tried before with #VirtualBox and #qemu, they always worked
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Well, it looks like I appeased the MINIX microkernel god(desse)s and my build is continuing to proceed.
Folding@Home defaults to using 1 less thread than the # of threads your CPU has, which typically gets rounded down to the nearest even number from what I've seen. So it's using 14 CPU threads, plus the GPU, leaving 1+ CPU thread free for a MINIX VM.
There's a thermal budget the active CPU cores have to consider, but I'm not in a hurry, as long as the build builds. 
New video out
Using the Expert Installer to install #Debian on #VirtualBox 
On #YouTube
https://youtu.be/61-OBlx-OJk
On #Odysee
https://odysee.com/@YetanotherSysAdmin:0/Debian-Expert-install-in-VirtualBox:8
Lessons learned from setting up a Linux desktop VM on a Windows 11 Home host
VirtualBox is more functional than Hyper-V Manager but much slower. There are a lot of tricks for getting this right. If you turn off Secure Boot you might permanently lock yourself out of Windows.
#Computers #FOSS #UX #Debian #HyperV #Linux #VirtualBox #Windows
https://blog.kamens.us/2025/01/18/lessons-learned-from-setting-up-a-linux-desktop-vm-on-a-windows-11-home-host/
Something better to do · Lessons learned from setting up a Linux desktop VM on a Windows 11 Home host
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@mwichary Did you ever get this up on and running @mwichary I decided to install #Windows 98 and Office 97 in #VirtualBox. The hardest part was just downloading the video driver.
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Tis Mon arvo. Am connected [by #AnyDesk] to dad's win10 pc, have fired up #VirtualBox thereon, & atm am d/l the current #Fedora #KDE ISO. Wot shall we see...
Any web developers here who can make fasttrack.debian.net web page responsive ? #askfedi #debian #freesoftware
Debian Fast Track is a repository that allows making “backports” of packages available to users of the stable distribution, if those packages cannot be maintained in testing and backported in the usual way.
This service was started originally to provide #gitlab packages and now include other software like #VirtualBox. Hosting sponsored by #Infomaniak
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There's a different icon in the status bar when #VirtualBox is running natively (not a green turtle). This is only an issue for Windows hosts, and it seems to apply across the board as far as guest speed, running on top of Hyper-V vs. natively.
Then OpenVMS port is the only guest I know of that actually requires guest support for XSAVE (system state save/restore with many extended features); it's a recent-enough port of a server OS, so they didn't mess around as far as entry-level PC support.
☭ VirtualBox will not launch any of my Windows VMs. I suspect there's an incompatibility there somewhere because I recently updated the kernel. Or could be that overzealous deleting of files from my limited storage space made me shoot myself in my own foot.
But after purging and reinstalling a couple of versions of VBox and trying to make a new VM it still won't go.
Guess I'll try Boxes...