CentOS - Jan 2019 - CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

Le 04/01/2019 ? 14:42, Jonathan Billings a ?crit?:
> If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use
> KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested.
This is what I normally use.

My only use for VirtualBox is making screenshots of the installer, and
sometimes for a quick test, because it's easy to make a VM clone in a
single click.

Niki

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On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 03:42:30PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs
wrote:
> My only use for VirtualBox is making screenshots of the installer, and
> sometimes for a quick test, because it's easy to make a VM clone in a
> single click.
After some thought, it makes sense to use VirtualBox for teaching,
since many people will probably start testing Linux using VirtualBox
on Windows or macOS.  Too bad the kernel bugs will prevent CentOS
7.6.1810 from being useful there.

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Le 04/01/2019 ? 15:55, Jonathan Billings a ?crit?:
> After some thought, it makes sense to use VirtualBox for teaching,
> since many people will probably start testing Linux using VirtualBox
> on Windows or macOS.  Too bad the kernel bugs will prevent CentOS
> 7.6.1810 from being useful there.
It's not that bad a problem. It only causes a problem with the installer
when folks use a different keyboard layout than the default one. So the
workaround is to use the default keyboard layout during installation,
and then define a custom keyboard after the initial reboot using
loadkeys and localectl, if folks need this (which is rare).

As for the rest, I'm only running it in multi-user.target mode for my
Linux trainings. On the desktop, I'm running OpenSUSE Leap with KDE, and
most of my students either have Windows 10 or Mac OS, with the odd
Kubuntu or Linux Mint exception.

Cheers,

Niki

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On 1/4/19 3:55 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> After some thought, it makes sense to use VirtualBox for teaching,
> since many people will probably start testing Linux using VirtualBox
> on Windows or macOS.  Too bad the kernel bugs will prevent CentOS
> 7.6.1810 from being useful there.
It makes sense to use Centos on top of VirtualBox.

In fact I deliver a "Software-in-a-box" package consisting of a Centos
installation on top of VirtualBox for my 1. semester students in
software development.

The package includes all the necessary software for the courses 2 years
ahead.

This removes most of my support problems keeping the Eclipse C/C++
environment stable on Windows and Mac, which I do not know very much and
therefore does not offer support on.

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