virtualization, was: Re: an observation, and question

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi Greg. Yeah, VBoxManage is a really nice tool, wouldn't have been able to get
my XP vm configured the way I wanted it otherwise. I am assuming that if you are
using UML to virtualize Linux guests on Linux hosts, that as far as the
installers go, they need to have some sort of remote installation functionality,
SSH or otherwise? What I am basically going for is a solution where I can grab
pretty much any distro that has a textmode installer i.e., Centos, Debian, Arch,
etc, get it installed, and render it bootable so I could play with it. While
Qemu works fairly well for this in my experience, I found that it was not really
optimal for navigating Ncurses-based textmode installers, so I didn't know if
there was a better way of doing it that I hadn't come across yet.
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:15:26PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> It depends on what guest you want to virtualize on what host. For
> virtualizing a GNU/Linux guest on a GNU/Linux host, I personally use
> user-mode Linux, though there are/were a few folks with screenreaders
> (using orca on GNU/Linux) on the virtualbox-users list, who do the
> same under virtualbox. I could get into running windows guests on
> windows hosts, for which I use a couple of solutions (virtualbox being
> one of them), depending on which version of windows I want to virtualize, but
> that's not a topic for this list.
> 
> As for your observation regarding virtualbox, though it is handy to
> get to use the GUI (NVDA does very well here on a windows host), it is
> still possible to make full use of virtualbox via the command line,
> once you take the time to learn the various options that need to be
> passed to the various virtualbox programs, primarily VBoxManage. Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:42:22PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi Greg and all. Regarding virtualization, what is the consensus on the best
> > method for getting good output from a textmode installer? I did try Qemu in
> > -curses mode, and unless I'm missing some configuration that needs to be done
> > beforehand, I found a lot of capability missing, such as cursor tracking. This
> > made it fairly difficult to navigate the Centos installer for example. My next
> > option I figured was Virtualbox, but so far as I can tell, it doesn't have an
> > Ncurses mode at all. Ideas?
> 
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