Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 15:52, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I tried creating a VM on another laptop (same make and model) running
> CentOS 7 -- this *seems* to work,

Forgive me if I am asking an obvious question, but what if you were to
flip the scenario on its head.

What is the reason for using such an old version of CentOS?
Would that function be something you could run in a VM?
So put a newer version of the Linux distro of your choice on the
hardware, and run the old CentOS in a VM? Or even in a container, if a
particular kernel version is not critical?

P2V conversion is significantly easier with Linux than with Windows,
as there is no activation/licensing etc.

> but I am having trouble logging in.  I don't
> really want to mess with the GUI, but really just want to login at one the
> alternitive "black" consoles (eg Alt-Ctrl-F2).  What is the guest user login
> name (and password, if any)?

AFAIK you can't. This is a GUI-only feature.

The graphical display manager is faking a guest account; really it
creates one, lets you log in, then destroys it when you log out. The
account isn't "there" the rest of the time.

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