vm / speakup / debian?

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi greg,

   thanks for your response.

   I have debian 8, a fresh install on this laptop, with gnome. I don't think that should make much difference though.

   Questions:

      1) why did you choose the xfce desktop?
      2) I have little experience with gui's in debian, everything has been speakup/cli. What screen review package do you use in a qt-based desktop?
      3) why the virtualbox vm, over vmware/kvm/etc?
      4) have you run a windows guest on the debian host? any caveats there?

      Thanks for any pointers/suggestions you can offer.

      --terry
      
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 01:56:10PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
--> I'm running the same debian 7 guest on both a windows host and a
--> devuan 1 host, not at the same time of course. The devuan host is running xfce, and I find myself
--> managing the guest from the GUI mostly. The GUI is qt-based, so the
--> accessibility is not what it would probably be if it was gtk-based,
--> but it is still useable. Also, everything that can be done from the
--> GUI on virtualbox can also be done through the command line. 
--> 
--> As for the guest itself, it's very much as if it were the host. Some
--> usb devices passed through to the guest don't handle as fast as they
--> would on bare metal, but that's about it. If you have more specific
--> questions, I'll try to answer them.
--> 
--> Greg
--> 
--> 
--> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 07:38:41PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
--> > Hi all,
--> > 
--> >    Been lurking on this list for a  long time, so here comes a question:
--> > 
--> >    Kirk tells me that some of you are using virtual machines with speakup.
--> > 
--> >    Which vm works best? kvm/qemu? vmware? virtualbox?  other?
--> > 
--> >    Target system is debian, on a asus laptop i7 64-bit, 8GB ram 1TB hdd.
--> > 
--> >    I have need to run windows 10, currently dual-booting with uefi/gpt, but want t+o run in a vm on this system.
--> > 
--> >    Also, curious about possibility of running android development in the same vm environment.
--> > 
--> >    Any suggestions/observations/experiences are very welcome.
--> > 
--> > TIA,
--> >  
--> >  --terry
--> > 
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Name: Terry D. Cudney
Phone: 289-488-4882 ext 1
E-mail: speakup at cloud.cudneys.ca