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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.

Windows Virtual Machine

  1. A Windows virtual machine (e.g., using Virtual Machine Manager) provides a full working Windows …

Use Shared Folders in VirtualBox

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  1. Do NOT check any of the following options unless you know what you are doing.

    • Read-only
      • You won't be able to write to the share directory.
    • Auto-mount
      • Auto-mount uses the root …

Tips on VirtualBox

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  1. If the graphics resolution is not correct and you cannot see the whole desktop when installing a Linux distribution in VirtualBox, quit the installation, enable the EFI mode for the virtual …

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions

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Atomic Linux Distributions

Fedora Atomic Linux Distributions

Open your terminal and run the following command to layer the package.

rpm-ostree install virtualbox-guest-additions

If you receive an error stating the package is …

Tips on the Redox Operating System

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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 …

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 …