Smaller Linuxes take less space and are easy (from a newbie standpoint) to install and administer.assuming you have what you need. You might not want a lot of time-wasting (+ space-wasting) apps, but obviously if your machine has a purpose(to run VirtualBox), you must make sure you have the requirements for it. Puppy-linux wrote:What I'm looking for is a simple linux that will host VirtualBox VM's - puppy is a good candidate because of the 2.6 kernel. He would be able to create a perfect VM and run it on almost ANY hardware due to the lightweight linux hostOS. Just think of the life of an administrator. Just imagine the massive possibilities one would have. So annyone here who is able and willing helping me out here? well quite simple answer here: my linux-skills are very poor. the result is the already very well working lightweight linux distribution much smaller and so a perfect platform for hosting VMs. no apps included BUT vmwareplayer or virtualbox. My idea is having a very very small linux distribution. I´ve asked many guys hanging around in those forums - asking for their help - but. To be honest i´m searching for 2 years by now.Īll awesome small and promising lightweight linux distributions with great hw-detection - that could be very well used as a hostOS for hosting VMs (i.e. I´m also searching for a small hostOS like puppy. I have to start the driver again after a reboot: You can now start virtualbox at the command prompt: root/my-documents/VirtualBox_1.4.0_Linux_x86.run installĪfter install has completed, the installer will recommend a change to your rc.d - do itĮdit the /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv as text and delete the lines 159 to 164:įail "Cannot change owner $groupname for device $dev" Issue from a terminal (assuming you downloaded to your /root/my-documents folder): In this case -congrats!!! - GCC is installed!ĭownload the any linux distribution from the Virtualbox website: Puppy linux 2.17 missing linux kernel headers in it's devx_217.sfs ?įirst install libsdl-1.2.9.pet and qt-3.3.6.pet from the pet installer.ĭownload/copy devx_217.sfs and kernel-source_217.sfs to your /mnt/home directory (same folder as pup_save.2fs).Īdd the devx_217.sfs and kernel-source_217.sfs files to your boot manager: START - SYSTEM - BOOTMANAGER
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