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hi! what is the difference between wine and a virtualisation like virtualbox? what are advantages and disadvantages compared to each other? peter

are there programs similar to Virtual PC that wine can run?

what windows apps do you need to keep? WINE emulates a windows directory structure that allows you to install some windows apps to that location. I only use this for pokerstars VMWare emulates the windows operating system environment. I have not used this in linux but you should be able to install an windows app in the vmware instance of window virtualbox - i have not used this

Hi, I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the installer screenshots. Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I might as well base all book references on this version. So I downloaded the 7.6 1810 minimal ISO and started a fresh installation in VirtualBox. I'm

I appologize for not posting that I gave this approach up already. The issue was that I wanted to run virtual pc because I knew it would handle .vhd files. I'm testing out virtualbox at the moment. I need everthing to run from a flash drive on a bare metal machine for emergency disaster recovery situations. I was merely exploring all avenues that I found and wine was one of those avenues.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:53 PM Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary > course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the > installer screenshots. > > Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I > might as well base all

Hi, at [Tails] we're in the process of shipping hybrid ISO images by default again. We're using `isohybrid -h 255 -s 63' to do that (thanks to the advice we got on this mailing-list a few months ago!). And then, we've discovered that sometimes, isohybrid produces ISO images whose size is not a multiple of 2048 bytes. Who cares? ... may you ask. Well, apparently, VirtualBox does:

> Hi, > > at [Tails] we're in the process of shipping hybrid ISO images by > default again. We're using `isohybrid -h 255 -s 63' to do that (thanks > to the advice we got on this mailing-list a few months ago!). > > And then, we've discovered that sometimes, isohybrid produces ISO > images whose size is not a multiple of 2048 bytes. > > Who cares?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 5:43 AM Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > <rant> And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To Linux with > > something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a custom > > keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the

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

Le 04/01/2019 ? 09:14, Akemi Yagi a ?crit?: > There are known issues with VirtualBox and RHEL (therefore CentOS) 7.6. > > (1) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90103 > (2) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90267 > > (1) is about the GuestAdditions, so this should not affect the > installation. But you were most likely hit by (2). All

Hi, I'm running CentOS 7 with Xfce on my main workstation. I just installed VirtualBox, and the application is running nicely. The only problem is that VirtualBox fonts are too tiny. How can I make the application behave and use the system-wide font settings ? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site :

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > <rant> And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To Linux with > something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a custom > keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the enterprise class Linux we > talked about in chapter 1 has a bug in the kernel so for now the default > keyboard

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 -- Microlinux -

Hello everybody, at my company we have the need to run a specific window application within a sandbox on windows itself. Anything (including the application) that is not data produced by the application itself has to be on a read-only filesystem. We decided we'll use wine for the task, within a virtualbox environment that will act as a sandbox. There are a few questions that I'd like to

Hi, On 20/02/2015 11:29, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > Hi, > >> Now, I have a question: what about the "offset" parameter? How it >> modifies our assumptions and calculations if the "offset" parameter is >> not zero? > > The offset influences only the start address of the > partition. The alignment goal is about the end address. > So

> An alternative would be to request a cylinder size which > is divisible by 2048. E.g. > > isohybrid -h 252 -s 63 > > The cylinder sizes 64x32 and 255x63 emerged as best > candidates when we compared our collections of questionable > experience and rumors. More substance is not to see behind > them. > (Actually Cylinder/Head/Sector addressing is so brain >

Just a small correction: Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > I expect the average waste to be a bit less than 16 MB. > > Yes, but slightly misleading. For example, the "16MB average" is > > relevant for 255/63. > > We advise two geometries: -h 63 -s 32 and -h 255 -s 63. > isohybrid behavior with the first one will not

> > Same result as yours. > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > I was under the impression (apparently the wrong one) that your pseudo-code was adding 4 cylinders to the first example, from 132 to 136, which would be non-optimal. Since I am not a developer, I believe you when you say that such jump won't happen :). Perhaps the code will be more clear to me

> > I wrapped the essential code into a standalone program for > playing with a few numbers: What about '-h 255 -s 63 , ISO size 1085736960' ? > I expect the average waste to be a bit less than 16 MB. Yes, but slightly misleading. For example, the "16MB average" is relevant for 255/63. Some user reading the code might not know the whole reasoning for: >