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Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
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Jim Diamond |
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Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? |
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Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:59:05 -0300 |
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On 2015-04-18 at 17:05 ADT, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Rusi wrote:
>> [To Bob]
>>
>> Any suggestions for making a victim (oops experimental) windows
>> running on a VM running on stock (debian/ubuntu) linux?
>
> I am fortunate that I don't need to work with MS-Windows. That means
> that I only know about it through hearsay. But you are wanting to run
> MS-Windows on GNU/Linux? Is that right? Why?
>
> If you are on MS-Windows and want to create a VM I hear good things
> about VirtualBox. However that name recognition does not extend in
> the reverse direction. VirtualBox on GNU/Linux is not very good. It
> was declared unsupportable by the Linux kernel folks a while back.[1]
> I don't think that situation has changed. So unfortunately people
> running on MS-Windows often have good results with VirtualBox there.
> Then they try to transfer that knowledge to running VirtualBox on a
> Linux kernel system and though it sometimes works the general
> experience isn't not great overall. I inherited a Fedora system
> running VirtualBox and I found the experience lacking. I eventually
> converted it to something different.
>
> [1] http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw
That is almost 5 years old. Don't you think it is a bit irrelevant to
the current year?
FWIW I use virtualbox (Linux host, mostly Linux guests) regularly and
haven't seen any problems I can even tenuously connect to it.
The mileage of people still living in 2011 may vary.
Cheers.
Jim
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, (continued)
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/16
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/16
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rusi, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rusi, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/18
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?,
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/19
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Alexis, 2015/04/20
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Jim Diamond, 2015/04/21
- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rodolfo Medina, 2015/04/18
- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/18
- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rodolfo Medina, 2015/04/18
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rusi, 2015/04/12
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/12
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rodolfo Medina, 2015/04/12
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/12