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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