arch in a vm?

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 5 08:29:36 UTC 2012


On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 09:53:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> After years with Ubuntu, I'm getting the itch to try something else.  Arch
> looks like fun but I don't have a spare machine right now to experiment on,
> so I would like to install it in a virtual machine on one of my ubuntu
> boxes (either my 12.10 laptop or the 12.04 desktop that runs our media
> centre and family computer).
> 
> I haven't worked with VM's for a long while -- any suggestions as to which
> solution is easiest & most practical?
> 
> Thanks much,
> Matt

For test run, both VirtualBox and KVM are okay.  I started with
VirtualBox because it has better GUI and better mouse response.  Now,
I'm using KVM, because it can access raw harddisk, whereas VirtualBox is
limited to USB disk.
-- 
William
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