Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-13 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have finally succeeded. It took seven hours to get it working. During that time I also installed KVM, which I had never heard of before, and tried to install Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, using the same install media (ISO file) that I had used to install it on VirtualBox several years ago. I had also tr

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I have no intention to judge other people choices - just my opinion + this is pLUG. No usb issues with Virtual Box here for about decade now - using Oracle repo + virtualBox Additions. I have no issues using usb with KVM either. I feel KVM is better and more performant than VirtualBox these days.

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-12 Thread Chuck Hast
VirtualBox USB issues drove me to VMWare, and since for personal use it is free, I started using it. Never had any issues moving a VM from one VMWare machine to another. I never tried VB again due to the USB issues I encountered. On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:21 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I di

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
I discovered that I can export from the old VirtualBox to OVF format just by manually changing the name of the file it will create from .OVA to .OVF. And the new VirtualBox on the Latitude will import it, except that at the end the import fails: VirtualBox Error Failed to import appliance ... Wind

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-11 Thread TomasK
So, you need OVF to import it? Try export Virtual Appliance from menu then select one of the OVF formats. I do not bother - just: rsync -a "VirtualBox VMs" .../home/$USER/ rsync -a .config/VirtualBox .../home/$USER/.config/ Then start your new virtualbox and you should see everything as it us

[PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have had VirtualBox on my Lenovo laptop and its predecessors for many years, and it always just works. Now that I have a new computer I decided to install it there also, and copy the VDI file for Windows 10 over there also (I have multiple licenses). In the past this always worked when I needed t