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pbear and CwF : What I did was re-mounted the target usb partition: sudo mount /dev/sda2 /home/ryzen/kvm then created a new pool ("usb-c") and a new volume ("/home/ryzen/kvm/kvm/debian12e.qcow2") as shown in the following screenshot: Screenshot from 2024-04-24 16-44-38.png The w...

Easiest way is to download the appimage and run it:

https://github.com/gdm-settings/gdm-settings

We use this to add Juliette Taka's emerald theme (!) to gdm3 which should have been included in the first place

Maybe leave this thread for promoting the default repository approach... Me bad deleted files from the vm will be automatically freed (unmapped) thus will not cause the vm to indefinitely expand. virt-sparsify takes care of that. Thanks. Virt-sparsify is a batch operation (and there is an equivalen...

@pbear: Thanks, I got it solved. It is not straightforward. Since we are dealing almost exclusively with desktop users with very well defined vm needs, VirtualBox is really the way to go, especially now that its vboxsvga virtual graphics driver is even better than VMWare has to offer (a great testim...

I usually create virtual machines on a usb stick. I have no problem with VirtualBox, but with virt-manager, the following error msg is received:

Unable to complete install: 'Cannot access storage file '/media/ryzen/extra0/kvm/debian12e.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:64055): Permission denied'

pbear wrote: ↑2024-04-22 05:27The simplest (imho) is to add yourself to the libvirt group, sudo adduser $USER libvirt.

This should be sudo adduser libvirt $USER . My fault.

Thanks for taking time to write this tutorial I have been looking for it for a while.

supersonic wrote: ↑2024-04-19 20:15You can try NaviCL:
https://github.com/supersonictw/navicl

Thanks a whole lot for your endeavor!

The libreoffice-gtk3 package is included in the debian-gnome-live iso: ryzen@L32:~/Downloads$ cat debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-gnome.iso.packages | grep libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-gtk3 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 Live-built has been in Debian's DNA for quite some time now. I suppose when Debian developers build...

I don't have any problem with either VirtualBox or virt-manager (qemu/kvm). I am running Debian Sid, fully updated, on AMD Ryzen+Radeon APU. But I don't think that should make any difference. Another difference is that I installed Debian from the hybrid live-built iso and not from netinstall. We hav...

I am definitely not making any suggestions to you or anyone one way or another but just to make a point that LibreOffice has progressed a lot and for those of us whose livelihood depends on it, it involves quite a complicated dependency.

Of course you can run LibreOffice 5.0 (?) or earlier without a proper DE. Gtk2 was all you need. This is a different era. I have been running LibreOffice and its progenitors since the StarOffice/StarSuite days (which were designed to be run in a text console, and Star Suite was designed for CJK lang...

I don't know if LibreOffice can adequately run without a proper DE (as I mentioned even the default gnome install under netinstall iso wouldn't cut it). Also, although appimages are supposed to be distro-agnostic, I don't even know if the LibreOffice appimage will run under LXQT.

I've reinstalled 12 Bookwork from the stable netinstall iso Yes, the version of LibreOffice automatically installed from netinstall iso always has this menu-fonts-too-small problem. You can do a sudo apt purge libreoffice then reinstall it to (hopefully) fix it. However, LibreOffice is a very much ...

As an example, sometimes a small change in kerning between different versions of LibreOffice can turn your documents especially the spreadsheets upside down until it's too late. We don't really have any control if the app is installed/upgraded from the repos.

Backports has always been reliable for me. Ditto "Sid" :D :D :D Anyway, not to lose focus, AppImage is the way to go especially for critically important applications such as LibreOffice. Many Microsoft Office users wish they could have something similar to LibreOffice AppImage so that the...

Our situation may be quite unique. We are primarily running on Sid with occasional, if any, booting to Bkworm. AppImage ensures seamless transitions between Sid and Bkworm, especially for such an important (& nuanced) application as LibreOffice. But thanks a lot for letting us know that the back...

LibreOffice is a big program, we typically use the following command: sudo apt purge libreoffice* followed by: sudo apt autoremove to do a "clean" removal. As show in the following screenshot, since we use LibreOffice daily, we only pin the appimage desktop file to the dash/panel. Other (b...

We use LibreOffice as one of our primary desktop apps and we have been using its appimage extensively. One of the main advantages of using the appimage is to ensure that the entire company uses the same version. AppImage also allows us (at least some of our machines) to almost instantly (and tempora...

Thanks to Debian developers (!!!), running qemu/kvm has indeed become very straightforward (!!!). All you need to do is executing the following command: sudo apt update && sudo apt install qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager Then add yourself to th...

Since OP is already familiar with Arch, it is probably a no-brainer to opt for qemu-kvm (& I'm all for it!). However, just a few weeks ago Cyberus Technology announced an open-source release of a KVM back-end developed for VirtualBox. It "allows VirtualBox to run virtual machines utilizing ...