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Tips on the Redox Operating System

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Try Redox in a Virtual Machine

  1. Install VirtualBox on your machine.

  2. Download the ova file for redox using the link https://static.redox-os.org/releases/ .

  3. Double click the ova file to …

Tips on Virtualbox

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$(whoami),gid=$(whoami),fmask=177,dmask=077
  1. If the graphics resolution is not correct and you cannot see the whole desktop when installing a Linux …

Windows Emulation on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Virtual machine is the recommend way to emulate Windows working environment on Linux.

Virtual Machine

  1. A Windows virtual machine (via Virtualbox, etc.) provides a full working Windows environment. The only downside …

Format a Flash Drive in a Linux Virtual Machine

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Install VirtualBox.

  2. Create a Ubuntu virtual machine.

  3. Install extension package.

  4. enable USB support

  5. select the flash drive you want to format to connect to the VM.

  6. use linux commands to format …

VirtualBox API

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

https://www.virtualbox.org/sdkref/interface_i_mouse.html