Darn it, forgot to monkey with the headers when replying from gmail... please see intended list reply below.
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:19 Subject: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? To: <delop...@gmail.com> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 6:03 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > What would you recommend for the software to run a VM under Jessie (that > > would probably run Ubuntu), and can you recommend a fairly simple set of > > instructions to first set up the VM, and then at least begin the install > > process to that VM. > > Recently I am using headless or sometimes visual virtualbox. If you want it > headless virtualbox is better. There are packages to download. I don't know > if and which work on jessie. > I do not think you need a backup if you install the packages. I second this. I’ve been using virtualbox since around etch or so I think — anyway a while. Since you’re on Jessie it should be in the repos. From stretch on you need to add a repo to get it as it fell out if the Debian repo. But it is still in Jessie — at least it was when Jessie was stable. I have always found virtualbox surprisingly easy to set up and use — a lot of things that as a noob I expected to be hard just weren’t. There’s a good visual setup screen for creating new VMs and the documentation is quite good as I recall. The only thing I’ve never got working properly is 3D acceleration. HTH Mark
