On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:02:07 -0400
vendor(a)billoblog.com wrote:
Do you know if those OEM $39
distros will actually work in Virtualbox?
I bought the cheapest OEM Windows 7 I could find from
a legitimate source (I don't remember how much I paid,
I think it was 50 or 60 bucks). I was able to install it
fine using virt-manager. This was before Windows 10,
so when Windows 10 came around, I upgraded the VM,
which took forever, but worked, so I now have a Windows 10
virtual machine.
I use a read only qcow2 base image with the running
system in a read/write qcow2, so if I ever have any
problems, I can just revert back to the base.
Whenever I happen to feel like killing time, I can boot directly
in the base, apply Windows updates, and make a new more
up-to-date base image.
I use the redhat virtual disk and network drivers and such
to get good performance and cut & paste support, etc (I
swear they move the "official" location to find them every
two or three weeks though, so don't ask me where they are
now :-).
The only thing that doesn't work with qemu is 3D graphics
(there are various rumors of projects to provide it, but
I don't think anything real exists yet). This isn't usually
a problem, but it did prevent me from running the software
for my 3D scanner in a virtual machine because it insisted
on open GL.