What Are You Doing Right Now
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sitting on my backside, looking at the rain, listening to velvet underground and waiting for knock off time......
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Putting the kids to bed.
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After thinking about the feedback on previous post about moving to Linux. Yeah I think to start a Linux VM in Virtual Box to play with different software and test what works.
Then when i'm happy I can swap round and have Linux as the main OS and a Windows VM in that for things that don't work.
*Will be a new year project
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Trying to catch up on here. Haven't been on in a couple days and missed a ton of good stuff
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
After thinking about the feedback on previous post about moving to Linux. Yeah I think to start a Linux VM in Virtual Box to play with different software and test what works.
Then when i'm happy I can swap round and have Linux as the main OS and a Windows VM in that for things that don't work.
*Will be a new year project
Why VirtualBox and not Hyper-V if Windows is your base, or KVM with Windows in the VM?
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Spammers be getting bolder around here.
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Good morning everyone. Been up doing Windows, SQL Server, and EdgeOS updates all morning. Might go back to bed soon.
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@scottalanmiller Because I hate Hyper-V I find VirtualBox or VMWare Player is easier to use on a Windows Desktop machine
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Because I hate Hyper-V I find VirtualBox or VMWare Player is easier to use on a Windows Desktop machine
You have Hyper-V? Why?
And the obvious choice is KVM, it's Windows you want in the VM, not Linux.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Because I hate Hyper-V I find VirtualBox or VMWare Player is easier to use on a Windows Desktop machine
You have Hyper-V? Why?
And the obvious choice is KVM, it's Windows you want in the VM, not Linux.
He's talking about a desktop setup. In his other thread he spoke of dual booting - to which I asked - why have the hassles of dual booting - instead use a VM.
Then as he mentioned above - he's thinking currently he'll have a Windows desktop with a Linux VM because he's more comfortable in Windows - then as he becomes more comfortable in Linux, he'd switch them around. So he might ultimately end up with KVM and a Windows VM, that wasn't his current desire.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Because I hate Hyper-V I find VirtualBox or VMWare Player is easier to use on a Windows Desktop machine
You have Hyper-V? Why?
And the obvious choice is KVM, it's Windows you want in the VM, not Linux.
He's talking about a desktop setup. In his other thread he spoke of dual booting - to which I asked - why have the hassles of dual booting - instead use a VM.
I know, and Hyper-V and KVM both do that extremely well.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Then as he mentioned above - he's thinking currently he'll have a Windows desktop with a Linux VM because he's more comfortable in Windows - then as he becomes more comfortable in Linux, he'd switch them around. So he might ultimately end up with KVM and a Windows VM, that wasn't his current desire.
Right, but that's a lot of extra work. Hence my point.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Then as he mentioned above - he's thinking currently he'll have a Windows desktop with a Linux VM because he's more comfortable in Windows - then as he becomes more comfortable in Linux, he'd switch them around. So he might ultimately end up with KVM and a Windows VM, that wasn't his current desire.
Right, but that's a lot of extra work. Hence my point.
I don't disagree that he should look at using Hyper-V on Windows 10 instead of VirtualBox, but really - meh...
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Then as he mentioned above - he's thinking currently he'll have a Windows desktop with a Linux VM because he's more comfortable in Windows - then as he becomes more comfortable in Linux, he'd switch them around. So he might ultimately end up with KVM and a Windows VM, that wasn't his current desire.
Right, but that's a lot of extra work. Hence my point.
I don't disagree that he should look at using Hyper-V on Windows 10 instead of VirtualBox, but really - meh...
I find I like VirtualBox more... VMs feel more responsive to me. (They're probably not, lol).
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Then as he mentioned above - he's thinking currently he'll have a Windows desktop with a Linux VM because he's more comfortable in Windows - then as he becomes more comfortable in Linux, he'd switch them around. So he might ultimately end up with KVM and a Windows VM, that wasn't his current desire.
Right, but that's a lot of extra work. Hence my point.
I don't disagree that he should look at using Hyper-V on Windows 10 instead of VirtualBox, but really - meh...
I find I like VirtualBox more... VMs feel more responsive to me. (They're probably not, lol).
Because they write to memory, not to disk. So if anything goes wrong, they just crash. It's faster because it's dangerous.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Then as he mentioned above - he's thinking currently he'll have a Windows desktop with a Linux VM because he's more comfortable in Windows - then as he becomes more comfortable in Linux, he'd switch them around. So he might ultimately end up with KVM and a Windows VM, that wasn't his current desire.
Right, but that's a lot of extra work. Hence my point.
I don't disagree that he should look at using Hyper-V on Windows 10 instead of VirtualBox, but really - meh...
I find I like VirtualBox more... VMs feel more responsive to me. (They're probably not, lol).
Because they write to memory, not to disk. So if anything goes wrong, they just crash. It's faster because it's dangerous.
Mayhap so, but I've never had any problems with it, so it remains my go-to. Windows 10 Home doesn't even offer Hyper-V as a feature, does it?
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Back in for this Friday.
Kiddo was sick yesterday, so I had to take a day. But we're here in the swing of things To end out the week !
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Because I hate Hyper-V I find VirtualBox or VMWare Player is easier to use on a Windows Desktop machine
You have Hyper-V? Why?
And the obvious choice is KVM, it's Windows you want in the VM, not Linux.
Using a Linux distro with a desktop environment works so much better with Virtualbox compare to Hyper-V.
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win10 1809 image creation today. ugh I hate doing level-1 work but gotta learn somehow
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I am drinking some delicious golden milk
