Hello Arrigo > I think you could have problems with your hardware being newer than > the CentOS Linux kernel. VM's give you more flexibility allowing you > to choose among several types of disk controllers, network cards etc.
Interesting! I assumed (apparently wrongly) that never Linux kernels would be backwards compatible with all older hardware. VMs do have those advantages but they also require the host to have more RAM (double?) than what you allocate to the VM ;) Since the VM requires 8MB, I need a PC with more than 8MB > I am not sure I understand your problem with disk space, but if you > have a spare SSD, you could partition, format and mount it, and put > the VM image files there. I don't have the spare disk with me at the moment, so it was an hypothetical question. But your suggestion does solve the space problem (and makes the VM portable..) > > If I can't install and update on metal (due to obsolete SSL/TLS) > > then would Mint 22.2 be ok to use as host? > > Any Linux distribution is good for running a VM... you could also use > a Windows host. Perfect, thanks! I don't use Windows at home ;) > Personally, I have my CentOS machines managed by KVM/qemu. > I believe that VirtualBox should also be good. Note taken! > The SSL/TLS obsolescence may become a problem regardless of your > CentOS system being ``real'' or virtual: it is a software issue. > > I hope this helps. Thanks! Best, Pedro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
