Virtual box (oracle)
Looks the best is to install virtual machine on mbd computer to enable different users to experiment with the system
# Notes on learning virtual box from Oracle
Installing xubuntu 23.04
Get the newest version of oracle virtual box
Set the iso in the very beginning of the installation
Go with unattended installation
The first run cancelled, was doing some squashfs error,but worked on the second start
put user ... with ... as a password do not use admin, is reserved
Navigating the virtual box environment
right control is reserved key for different operations
+ F switches out to the virtual machine
+ C scales the view to the window
Setting a shared folder and functional clipboard
link-to-video This video shows how to install additions on host and also on guest also shows that you need to add the user to the group for the sharing of files needed to add vld to the sudo group from a root
afterwards the shared folder works, but drag and drop does not. link to drag and drop troubleshooting
Getting access to a usb
Streaming sound out?
Making snapshots of the virtual machine
Now I do have a clean install of xubunutu
So I want to save this state of the machine and then save the version where I installed all the other installed stuff.
List of installed stuff
wget (apt)
curl (apt)
pandoc (apt)
R (looks there are some issues, but also a workaround using r2u
R studio (from deb package link-here
imagemagick (apt)
virtualenv link-to-installation
csvkit (pip or link-here )
conda ( link to tutorial
yt-dlp (apt)
golang-go (apt)
gum (more complicated link-from-github
open ssh-client ssh-server
xrdp (apt)
brave (snap)
flatpack/flatpak
docker (apt)
nvim
obs-studio (apt)
fiji (need to download and unpack to be useful link here )
ffmpeg (apt)
net-tools (apt)
Sharing the virtual machine with other people
The finished virtual box can be shared with other people
Eventually, this is best circumvented using vagrant to create the same machine for each user by a script
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