From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:05:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150418135105440884001@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f684967-5d47-43d9-8ffb-275c129203a8@googlegroups.com>
Rusi wrote:
> [To Bob]
>
> Any suggestions for making a victim (oops experimental) windows
> running on a VM running on stock (debian/ubuntu) linux?
I am fortunate that I don't need to work with MS-Windows. That means
that I only know about it through hearsay. But you are wanting to run
MS-Windows on GNU/Linux? Is that right? Why?
If you are on MS-Windows and want to create a VM I hear good things
about VirtualBox. However that name recognition does not extend in
the reverse direction. VirtualBox on GNU/Linux is not very good. It
was declared unsupportable by the Linux kernel folks a while back.[1]
I don't think that situation has changed. So unfortunately people
running on MS-Windows often have good results with VirtualBox there.
Then they try to transfer that knowledge to running VirtualBox on a
Linux kernel system and though it sometimes works the general
experience isn't not great overall. I inherited a Fedora system
running VirtualBox and I found the experience lacking. I eventually
converted it to something different.
[1] http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw
> I dabbled in virtualbox for a while but could not get it to work.
> [Actually dabbled too little to say for sure]
VirtualBox on MS-Windows? Or on GNU/Linux? On a Linux kernel system
my experience with it was not good either.
> I guess the goto-point nowadays is VMWare?
> There seem to be too many options... as usual...
On GNU/Linux my reading of the two most popular free(dom) software
virtualization systems is Xen and KVM. Xen has a longer history. KVM
is the newcomer rising star. Which to pick? Probably the answer
depends upon everything. I think there will be strong advocates for
each. I think each can do the task well. The choice is yours.
Personally I am running a libvirt encapsulation of KVM for my VM
systems for both testing and production. It is robust and relatively
simple to work with. But I know that someone running Xen would say
the same thing. libvirt will encapsulate either. It is basically
happy scripts to hide some of the underlying complexity.
http://libvirt.org/
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-18 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-08 18:29 How to uninstall Emacs? Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-08 18:30 ` J. David Boyd
2015-04-08 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 21:15 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-09 19:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-04-11 13:11 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.243.1428527741.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-09 23:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-11 13:11 ` [solved] " Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-11 19:05 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-12 11:34 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-13 23:03 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-15 6:34 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.611.1428966213.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-13 23:23 ` [solved] " Emanuel Berg
2015-04-15 21:41 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-16 15:38 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-16 21:16 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.848.1429218983.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 2:46 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:39 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1049.1429389591.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-19 23:29 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1135.1429490170.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-20 1:40 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.830.1429198561.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:47 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.782.1429134342.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 1:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-16 3:58 ` Rusi
2015-04-16 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 3:00 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:05 ` Bob Proulx [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1047.1429387523.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 11:59 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-19 23:35 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-20 7:46 ` Alexis
[not found] ` <mailman.1136.1429490171.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-21 17:53 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-18 21:08 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-18 22:27 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-18 22:59 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.504.1428838317.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 14:36 ` [solved] " Rusi
2015-04-12 17:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:50 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-12 16:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:53 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1428779144.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg
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