raymac46 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Well Debian doesn't support VirtualBox as a host, but there's no reason you can't install it as a guest on a system that does. I am using Windows 10 to host a Linux distro so I thought I'd give Debian Buster a spin. You can use the netinstall mini-iso if you want. The Curses based installer works better than the graphical one. I chose the LXQt desktop as my preferred way to roll. After installation you have a relatively small screen resolution. You need to put in the Guest Additions. To install Guest Additions first install build-essential and then dkms. Add in the Guest Additions iso from VBox and mount it at /mnt/cdrom. Then run the shell script to build the modules you need. After reboot the Guest additions work to give you a full screen LXQt desktop. I added in Chromium browser after that. My user was not in the sodoers file so sudo didn't work. I had to run sudo visudo as root to add myself in as an administrator. Then sudo works. The default Buster LXQt desktop uses XFWM4 as the window manager which is just what I wanted. I'll continue to experiment with Debian in VBox and may install it on the rails if I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookmem Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, raymac46 said: Well Debian doesn't support VirtualBox as a host, but there's no reason you can't install it as a guest on a system that does. I am using Windows 10 to host a Linux distro so I thought I'd give Debian Buster a spin. You can use the netinstall mini-iso if you want. The Curses based installer works better than the graphical one. I chose the LXQt desktop as my preferred way to roll. After installation you have a relatively small screen resolution. You need to put in the Guest Additions. To install Guest Additions first install build-essential and then dkms. Add in the Guest Additions iso from VBox and mount it at /mnt/cdrom. Then run the shell script to build the modules you need. After reboot the Guest additions work to give you a full screen LXQt desktop. I added in Chromium browser after that. My user was not in the sodoers file so sudo didn't work. I had to run sudo visudo as root to add myself in as an administrator. Then sudo works. The default Buster LXQt desktop uses XFWM4 as the window manager which is just what I wanted. I'll continue to experiment with Debian in VBox and may install it on the rails if I like it. It might not be in the Debian repos, but if you go to virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads, you'll find versions for Debian 8, 9 and 10. Edited July 18, 2020 by Bookmem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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