Subj : Re: Coming back to Linux
To   : Accession
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Sep 12 2025 07:01:04

-=> Accession wrote to hyjinx <=-

 Ac> So, if you're looking for building a Linux machine, you may want to
 Ac> look at other options that you can run as an application on your Linux
 Ac> distro, like Virtualbox, or something similar that won't take up your
 Ac> whole system.

 Sound advice. I have seen some people that have run PCI passthrough and
 loaded Proxmox on their bare metal, then create a VM that runs full
 screen and accesses your hardware directly. Sounds like a good solution
 if you need to have Just One Box and run VMs all the time, but
 VirtualBox is a nice solution for part-time VMs.

 I liked VMWare Workstation under Windows, but found it fiddly under
 Linux. VMWW is free again, but would prefer to look elsewhere for my
 virtual compute needs.

 I don't know how I did it back then, but I ran the BBS in a WinXP Lite
 VM running in VMWare Workstation on a hyperthreaded pentium with 3 GB
 of RAM back in the 2000s. I think the VM got 512 mb of that and it
 worked surprisingly well.





 
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