Axios Do you mean it should run a live ISO in a virtual environment or just mount the iso so you can check out the contents?

In the latter case with Budgie (and I assume GNOME) you can right-click an iso file, select "Open with..." and then choose the "Disk Image Mounter" to mount that iso. It will then be accessible like e.g. a mounted (USB-) drive

Not sure about other DEs

      As in mount the ISO?
      sudo mount -o loop whatever.iso /path/to/mount/point

      Plasma has a graphical way of doing it just right clicking and mounting the ISO in dolphin

      Staudey Run a live ISO in a virtual environment
      It was so easy nothing to set up I would check stuff out by just clicking on the iso and it would run.

          Axios That sounds to me like VirtualBox would be what you need. It's in the repository.
          Must admit to only installing to virtual drives, never tried booting a live system from it, but don't see why that shouldn't work.

              I think I can convert iso to vdi file but it gives me this error

                Axios at first I thought you were thinking of something way cooler that hadn't been invented yet: like being in your bare metal budgie and having a program that would let you climb/boot into the .iso on the disk...technically two operating systems at the same time. the bare metal would have a program that would allow you to travel back and forth.

                    brent Holy batman The first sentence is correct I did it with windows
                    Be in windows run the program and it would boot the iso.

                        Axios If MS has such a cool invention then it's technically not virtual at all. no sandbox? just a same-time portal to two worlds, as it were....it's just a matter of time there would be a FOSS version of this. I think you are right there has to be something.

                            brent I will have to dig for the program I prob got it somewhere but it wont happen anytime soon..
                            Virtualbox wouldnt be to bad if I can convert them to vdi and run them easier than burning usb all the time.
                            No rebooting and all that stuff

                              Axios
                              That is likely because you have not restarted since you installed virtualbox.

                              I assume you are running the default kernel linux-current in which case make sure you installed virtualbox-current not virtualbox

                              See: https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/software/virtualization/virtualbox

                              Personally I prefer virt-manager because in my experience it performs better and doesn't have kernel specific builds, some people find it a bit more clunky to work with but its just different to what they are used to.

                                  Axios You should reboot after installing virtualbox, it needs to load its kernel module.

                                  NINJA'D

                                    Solus Plasma iso running in vm (not really set up right tho)

                                    That was interesting

                                    Run this command on your iso (example) then you have vdi file and you can run live
                                    VBoxManage convertfromraw Solus-4.5-Plasma.iso Solus-4.5-Plasma.vdi

                                    A little bit off topic, but still pretty funny .. This is my Windows 10 setup at work, except .. the center monitor is running Manjaro in a full screen VM, but I have the backgrounds set up in such a way that any normie (which is everyone!) coming into my office doesn't notice that I'm running two OS's! 🙂

                                    I dont do distro hopping anymore but now and then may check one out and this is a easy way without
                                    burning and rebooting and all that stuff.
                                    9 times out ten I can tell right after booting if its something that catches my fancy or not
                                    at least I know alittle about vm now.

                                    I should point out that converting isos to a vdi is kinda hacky. You should just install it properly in the VM. The installer removes certain packages that only exist on the ISO. There is no ability to set filesystem etc. Its fine for messing around but just know issues might prop up and it is an unsupported configuration so don't expect help.

                                      Harvey Thats all I would do with it mess around check it out If I got serious
                                      about something would do it proper.
                                      Thanx for the input honestly didnt really think about that.

                                          Axios I always run test distros with Ventoy on my USB stick. For the effort of pressing F12 at boot time I get to have a full live system without the overhead of my host operating system running in the background.
                                          Just my preference for messing around.