More RAM and virtual machines instead of dual booting?

ozitraveller · 2015-10-25 19:34:41

I find doing the live-build in vb and test installing in vb makes the development process quicker. But I use my own distro on my other pc's as well so they do get installed on bare metal at some point.

Irulan · 2015-10-26 17:19:40

I used to dual boot until a Win7 update ate my MBR. I now just use Win7 as a vm guest. I don't game so graphics isn't a real issue. I do use VMPlayer and I think that jfs provides a great file system for > 500 GB vmdk files.
-Hinto

ozitraveller · 2015-10-26 19:40:32

I use gpt on my home 1tb drive, no issues.

I'm very interested in lxc and docker as well. Interested to see how much lighter my vm's will be with lxc.

tknomanzr · 2015-10-27 00:40:06

I have recently been trying to tackle systemd-nspawn. I keep envisioning a host OS that is basically a console setup that is capable of spawning an arbitrary number of containerized OS's. If I ever figure out how to setup wireless networking in systemd, I would get further with it. If not, then once I get moved, I will redo my entire networking setup so my main desktop can utilize it's dual 1000BaseT ethernet connections. I just think it would be really cool to be able to run debian+arch+whatever from one machine.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-10-27 08:34:28

tknomanzr wrote:

wireless networking in systemd

I use systemd-networkd for both wired & wireless connections (with seamless switchover between the two when the cable is un/plugged) and my systemd-nspawn containers always have a network connection without any tweaking.

Guide here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … me_machine

It does require a correctly configured /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-<interface name>.conf file -- see this thread for details about setting up the file (change the file name, obviously):
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39103

@OP: Sorry for the off-topic!

tknomanzr · 2015-10-27 13:10:24

Thanks HoaS!

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