[xubuntu-users] Another road

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2024-12-02 at 20:11 +0100, Wiebe van der Worp wrote:
> On 12/2/24 17:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > In my experiences VirtualBox is the best solution, when using the
> > Oracle run script. VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM from packages every now
> > and then break, especially when the moment is particularly
> > inappropriate.
> 
> Thanks for the warning. Running "stable" I hope this is less of an 
> issue.

Hi,

for an UEFI virtual machine it doesn't matter if you are using Debian
stable or a rolling release, if you want to keep the guest for a very
long time. Upstream migrated from 2M to 4M firmware images. I created a
guest a long time ago with 2M and nowadays it either requires a "repair"
or to downgrade edk.

https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/edk2/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/howto-2M-to-4M-migration.md?ref_type=heads
https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/edk2/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/2M_VARS-to-4M_VARS.sh?ref_type=heads

> My problem with VirtualBox is lack of support of hardware 3D rendering
> combined with Windows guest plus BricsCAD.

For my VirtualBox Windows guests 3D acceleration is disabled, so I can't
comment on this. However, consider to test VirtualBox from the link 
"All distributions (built on EL6 and therefore not requiring recent
system libraries)" at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads .
In my experiences VirtualBox without using libraries from distro
packages does perform way better, at least without 3D acceleration
enabled. Probably enabled 3D acceleration does also improve.

Regards,
Ralf