Creating VirtualBox VMs on Solus

WetGeek

I'm attempting to make this tutorial to any forum member who has an interest. I'm using Microsoft OneDrive for the very first time, and If I did everything right, you should be able to get a copy here.

Of course, I won't be able to tell if it works until I save this message and try it for myself. Wish me luck!

Creating VirtualBox VMs is really very easy, despite my 16-page tutorial. (It's largely pictures.) And once you've created one, the next one will be trivial. Be aware that if you ever want to delete a VM that you don't want or need anymore, it's trivial to do that. Just select it in the VirtualBox manager, right-click, and select "Remove."

So feel free to experiment, knowing that you won't need to keep the results unless they work for you!

EDIT: It works!

brent

WetGeek was able download and save your zipped file. Like the font and layout.

Solarmass

Can confirm, I can open this pdf in the browser 🙂

WetGeek

brent

I'm glad you finally got a copy. I used Solus Plasma as the example in that document, because I've recently created a Plasma VM, and I know that our .ISO file works. But if you'd rather have a Windows VM, feel free to follow the same instructions with a Windows 10 .ISO file you can download for free from Microsoft.

And if you're really interested in creating a Windows 11 VM, that's a possibility, too. Creating it requires some extra steps, and you need to hack the Windows registry to add some new keys, but it's not very hard. I can let you know how to do that, but I just wouldn't recommend it for your first VM.

To try out other Linux distros, I believe you can follow the same steps in the tutorial, but just substitute the .ISO file you downloaded from their site. I haven't distro-hopped since I found Solus, but I don't remember anything special from back when I created a lot of those VMs.

murbert

I appreciate the tutorial, it is well made and just what I needed to get Oracle's version to work, thanks.
A few points:
Gnome Boxes is easier for a noob to get working, I figured it out without a tutorial. I never could get VirtualBox working on my own. Too many variables I didn't really understand.
VirtualBox definitely uses less space on the drive with the variable drive size. I'm using about 30% of my drive so for me not a big deal, others may find this more important.
I don't see much of a difference in performance so on Linux I'll keep using Boxes.
On my Windows laptop I used your tutorial to set up Solus in a VM, works like a charm.