Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
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Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
I did hope I would get some advice regarding installing LM 19.3 Cinnamon on my Windows 10 machine as a VM in this topic. viewtopic.php?f=231&t=308748 but despite many views no help was forthcoming so have ploughed into via help that I have googled. I installed OracleVB fine but when I then went to install Cinnamon I think I have chosen the wrong OS.
As you can see I have selected Ubuntu (64-bit). Should that not be Debian (64-bit) as it is on my other Linux machines. Please help.
As you can see I have selected Ubuntu (64-bit). Should that not be Debian (64-bit) as it is on my other Linux machines. Please help.
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Re: Question About OS
No. Linux Mint literally *is* Ubuntu. Except for the Mint-only packages.
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Re: Question About OS
Thank you pjotr, I had a backup done prior to doing this so restored it and started again and by default it goes for Ubuntu (64bit). However I do have one issue and that is with my graphics driver. I have an AMD Radeon HD 6850 video card on this machine. When installing Cinnamon 19.3 I did check the box for installing proprietary drivers but every time I go into the Linux VM I get this message. When I run Driver Manager I get this return.
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Re: Question About OS
Your hardware matters little when you install to a virtual machine...
Re: Question About OS
So how can I stop that warning coming up every time I start Linux VM? It seems to be running ok.
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Re: Question About OS
Install Extension Pack and insert Guest Additions CD image when the system is running.
https://puolanka.info/goto/how-to-fix-l ... irtualbox/
Re: Question About OS
Ah sry, forgot to say: Enable 3D acceleration in the VM's settings, simple as that.
Re: Question About OS
I had already installed Guest Additions CD Image when I created Linux VM and installed so to be able to automatically go to full screen, anyway I opened terminal and this is what I got.kukamuumuka wrote: ⤴Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:27 pmInstall Extension Pack and insert Guest Additions CD image when the system is running.
https://puolanka.info/goto/how-to-fix-l ... irtualbox/
Looking at that link I have not got /Desktop/addons directory in Desktop so do not understand what is happening here. Perhaps you can expand your advice.jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~/Desktop$ sudo sh VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
[sudo] password for jim-bb:
sh: 0: Can't open VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~/Desktop$
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Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Moderator's note:
Topic was moved to the Virtualization area. Best of luck!
Topic was moved to the Virtualization area. Best of luck!
If your issue is solved, kindly indicate that by editing the first post in the topic, and adding [SOLVED] to the title. Thanks!
Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
I have tried to sort this out but there does not seem to be a /Desktop/addons directory and when I put in the terminalInstall Extension Pack and insert Guest Additions CD image when the system is running.
https://puolanka.info/goto/how-to-fix-l ... irtualbox/
Code: Select all
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
Appreciate any further advice on this.jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~$ sudo sh VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
[sudo] password for jim-bb:
sh: 0: Can't open VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~$
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Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Sorry GM, yes I did that and that got rid of the nag screen about the graphics driver, thanks for that. I was just wondering why that directory under /Desktop was missing that kukamuumuka referred to.How about the same advice I already gave?
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Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Ok then. But I only saw them suggest you install the extension pack, which is only needed if you want the guest to be able to access USB 2 or USB 3 devices on the host computer and thus had nothing to do with your problem.
Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Sorry, my typo, it should bemuffybean wrote: ⤴Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:01 pmI have tried to sort this out but there does not seem to be a /Desktop/addons directory and when I put in the terminalInstall Extension Pack and insert Guest Additions CD image when the system is running.
https://puolanka.info/goto/how-to-fix-l ... irtualbox/I get the following result:Code: Select all
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~$ sudo sh VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
[sudo] password for jim-bb:
sh: 0: Can't open VBoxLinuxAddidions.run
jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~$
Code: Select all
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Did this OK and this was the resulting information in Terminal.
Surely from what it says in line 6 it was already installed as I said in my previous message viewtopic.php?p=1741958#p1741958. That is why I could not understand about the absence of the graphics driver. Since gm told me about checking the " Enable 3D acceleration in the VM's settings" I have had no issues. Thank you both though for your help, it is appreciated. Unless you think there is anything else I should do, I will mark this as solved.jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~$ sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
[sudo] password for jim-bb:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.0 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.1.0 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-24-generic
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules. This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 5.3.0-24-generic.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-24-generic
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
jim-bb@jimbb-VirtualBox:~$
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Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Of course you have set 128 MB of videomemory for Mint in the VirtualBox settings. .... or have you?
Re: Question about installing Mint in a virtual machine
Yep.kukamuumuka wrote: ⤴Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:20 am Of course you have set 128 MB of videomemory for Mint in the VirtualBox settings. .... or have you?
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