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Post by earlypearly on Feb 16, 2023 17:21:33 GMT
Hello all,
Has anyone run Bodhi from inside Virtualbox? You could have Bodhi as the main operating system, then install Virtualbox on top of that, then a second Bodhi OS inside Virtualbox. The only problem I see here, is that Virtualbox cannot have more than half oft the total system RAM - meaning that a host computer with 4 GB of RAM cannot assign more than 2 GB of RAM to operating systems running inside Virtualbox. I am curious if anyone has tried this? Thanks.
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Post by Hippytaff on Feb 16, 2023 19:00:31 GMT
I have a number of Bodhi virtual machines I run from a Bodhi host. In fact the iso is made in a virtualbox guest I believe.
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Post by earlypearly on Feb 16, 2023 21:38:28 GMT
Thank you, Hippytaff. Hopefully your host computer has at least 8 GB of RAM to work with - 4 GB is cutting it close, even for lightweight distros like Bodhi.
If I may ask, what can you do with Bodhi inside Virtualbox, that you can't do with Bodhi as host?
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Post by Hippytaff on Feb 16, 2023 22:41:55 GMT
4gig of ram. Works fine.
I can break it, test stuff…and break it. Play around with things I shouldn’t to learn how stuff works without destroying my main system.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Feb 16, 2023 23:58:41 GMT
I have several Bodhi virtual machines I run in virtualbox, for the same reasons as hippytaff... testing bodhi, or testing apps, or testing apps on bodhi, or trying experiments, etc. And I often set them up with 1GB or ram or less and they run fine.
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Post by earlypearly on Feb 17, 2023 2:56:16 GMT
Thank you, Hippytaff and Enigma.
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Post by wimc on Feb 17, 2023 10:56:54 GMT
When I used virtualbox, gave any OS 8GB of ram, of course have plenty, see signature for details.
May start again. Its fun.
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Post by oscarb75 on Feb 17, 2023 13:25:49 GMT
Thank you, Hippytaff. Hopefully your host computer has at least 8 GB of RAM to work with - 4 GB is cutting it close, even for lightweight distros like Bodhi. If I may ask, what can you do with Bodhi inside Virtualbox, that you can't do with Bodhi as host? I have Bodhi as VM on a NAS and it works ok with 2gb ram assigned. I tried it on laptop with 2 and 3 gb, and it works well as long as you do not open 10 tabs on Chromium or Firefox. On a notebook with I3 and 8gb ram, I have Mint as main OS, and Win10 on Virtualbox, with 4gb assigned, and it works ok. |
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