Nuxified GNU/Linux Help Forums - virtualization - Comments

Did some.

spyro_boy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:09:50 +0100

I used to do some Windows XP virtualizing myself in the past. QEMU+KVM modules worked fine. Ran smoothly under debian testing. Never did much but benchmarking. (Actually, I think I used it for teamspeak and skype for a little since the 32-bit binaries didn't work on my 64-bit system.)

LinuxTracker looks quite

reptiler — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:22:12 +0100

LinuxTracker looks quite interesting. I might have a look into it and maybe try sharing EasyLFS through it.

Virtualization really is a nice toy. As said, I use it for quite some time already and love the possibility to run another OS or distro just in a window, while still being able to do everything I like.
It's also interesting as a web-developer, as I can just fire up Windows in a window and then test the website in Internet Explorer, without having to reboot my machine.

First of all, I am

Jose — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:04:15 +0100

First of all, I am interested in getting replies from anyone that gets the download from this torrent and has the iso file work because I have not done this before and I want to make sure the file made it out in tact (yes, I both verified the initial md5 and got the iso working, so any issues would probably be in executing the torrent).

Second, I forgot. If you download from the torrent now, you will also grab pieces from any other peers. Currently, there is only one other peer, but that person already has about 100MB (as off my posting time). I guess this means that if one other person joined in now, that person would tap completely into that peer's upload bandwidth (which if like mine, is much lower than the download bandwidth). But if more than one person joins now, then you will all have to share among my and that existing peer's upload bandwidth (and for all I know, that person may have very very little). Of course, over time all rates would increase as you could all leech off each other. Anyway, I am not sure. It all might work out.

In fact, the rates might go up *very* quickly. Disregard my worries since I think they are unfounded (I was worried about too many people dropping in at the same *exact* time).

Welcome. Welcome all *now*. ..even if you don't intend to stay on after the complete download.

I am using KTorrent by the way. I don't have a lot of experience, but I can probably help out anyone that is new to bittorrent sharing.

Oh, yes. I am also interested to get opinions about Linpus and to know if anyone has had success finding links to package/sources for that distro (won't be as good as the LFS info though which is really what I want).

I just had my first

Jose — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:39:06 +0100

I just had my first successful run with virtualization yesterday (Linpus Linux on VirtualBox). I will be paying more attention to this area. It really is convenient to work with different distros this way, though I still see myself dealing with partitions and such for various reasons (but I may change my view as I gain experience with virtualization).

Offtopic, Linpus is interesting as a potential distro for newbies. It would be nice to see a version of LFS embrace a desktop shell that was of similar nature.

LT news link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2008021600526RVSW (I reviewed it in the comments. Not a great review by any means but you can get a sample of Linpus)

Torrent: http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=7521efbf6e7e6fb7a1cbac220eec0dbe3d87ebd8&f=LinpusLinux-LiveCD-i386.iso.torrent This is my first time seeding a torrent.. it seems like one person (from poland) is already taking advantage.. hope it works. Also, see if you can wait some hours before attempting the torrent since right now I am the only one seeding it. The person downloading from me now, as is, does not have a very awesome download speed. Then again, anyone interested in remaining on to seed for others later is more than very welcomed to leech