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My Arch VMware still doesn't do touchpad scroll, not that I've tried.
I cloned it for my co-worker, edited the accounts, tested the system, it worked fine. Copied it to the shared hard drive, then to her laptop. And now it has quirky IP address or hostname lookup issues that we can't figure out, such that the boss decided to start over.
With OpenSUSE! He trusted the official VM tools, it didn't work. May have tried Open VM Tools, I stopped paying attention.
Co-worker moved onto Ubuntu, using an image from OS Boxes, which I view as potentially NSA/mafic front, but hey, it's not my IP. That seems to be working, possibly in all ways.
I was inspired to go back to VirtualBox, and started over from scratch. After 40-50 minutes, mostly waiting for packages to download and install, it was ready, with X and XFCE and Firefox. Display resizes, cut and paste works, even scrolling works! Everything... except shared folders; I thought I followed the Arch instructions, but I get a "Protocol Error".
Sigh.
I have continued to realize VMs are cool. I could have a second Arch VM and play with desktop environments without messing up my working one. Or play with Ubuntu and Red Hat without rebooting. Or you could skip "will Linux work on this laptop?", install VBox or QEMU on Windows, then go full screen and ignore Windows almost entirely.
I cloned it for my co-worker, edited the accounts, tested the system, it worked fine. Copied it to the shared hard drive, then to her laptop. And now it has quirky IP address or hostname lookup issues that we can't figure out, such that the boss decided to start over.
With OpenSUSE! He trusted the official VM tools, it didn't work. May have tried Open VM Tools, I stopped paying attention.
Co-worker moved onto Ubuntu, using an image from OS Boxes, which I view as potentially NSA/mafic front, but hey, it's not my IP. That seems to be working, possibly in all ways.
I was inspired to go back to VirtualBox, and started over from scratch. After 40-50 minutes, mostly waiting for packages to download and install, it was ready, with X and XFCE and Firefox. Display resizes, cut and paste works, even scrolling works! Everything... except shared folders; I thought I followed the Arch instructions, but I get a "Protocol Error".
Sigh.
I have continued to realize VMs are cool. I could have a second Arch VM and play with desktop environments without messing up my working one. Or play with Ubuntu and Red Hat without rebooting. Or you could skip "will Linux work on this laptop?", install VBox or QEMU on Windows, then go full screen and ignore Windows almost entirely.