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What should I use as a VM environment/OS? Obviously I know GNU/Linux distros, but if all I'm going to be doing is using Firefox, I don't want a 8GB+ VM file hog
by djent 11y ago
What should I use as a VM environment/OS? Obviously I know GNU/Linux distros, but if all I'm going to be doing is using Firefox, I don't want a 8GB+ VM file hogging space on my normal system. Right now, I only have a 256 GB SSD in my laptop, and have my VMs on an external hard drive, which when plugged in to use uses up 1 out of my 2 USB ports. I would love to browse in a VM if I could get away without using a ton of space on my SSD. Also if you have any suggestions for options that also support high-DPI, that would be great, but not strictly necessary.
- lucb1e 11y agoI used to use Crunchbang whenever I wanted a lightweight, easy and modern GNU/Linux virtual machine, but they seem to have pulled the plug. Debian is what I'm most familiar with, so that's my new place to go. Still quite big with a relatively basic install, but not as big as Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Really lightweight stuff is Damn Small Linux (old) or Puppy Linux (never tried it), but I'm not sure how usable that is for day-to-day tasks.
- edison_carter 11y agoCrunchbang++ is a solid community effort to continue the late, lamented Crunchbang https://crunchbangplusplus.org/ https://crunchbangplusplus.org/
- kyboren 11y agoCheck out Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ You can use Fedora, Debian, Whonix, or Windows in "seamless" mode with minimal effort. It has a composable networking architecture (e.g. easy to make all a VM's traffic go through Tor, whose traffic in turn goes over a VPN). Disposable VMs are a native feature. Template VMs reduce duplication of /; Application VMs use a template VM with CoW / and their own persistent /home. Qubes uses Fedora 20 for Dom0, so you get all the same graphics support as Fedora gives you.