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Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello all, sorry for such a newbish question, as I should probably know how to properly partition a hard drive, but I really don't know where to start. So what I'm looking to do is install a Debian distro, RHEL, and Arch. Want to go with Mint LMDE, Manjaro, and Fedora. I do not need very much storage, so I don't think space is an issue. I have like a 500+ something GB ssd and the few things that I do need to store are in a cloud. I pretty much use my laptop for browsing, researching, maybe streaming videos, and hopefully more programming and tinkering as I learn more; that's about all... no gaming or no data hoarding.

Do I basically just start off installing one distro on the full hard drive and then when I go to install the others, just choose the "run alongside" option? or would I have to manually partition things out? Any thing to worry about with conflicts between different types of distros, etc.? hoping you kind folks can offer me some simple advice on how to go about this without messing up my system. It SEEMS simple enough and it might be so, but I just don't personally know how to go about it lol. Thanks alot!!

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

What?

  1. Install virt-manager qemu qemu-kvm
  2. Run virt-manager
  3. Install a new distro, choose the .iso that you downloaded, assign 8GB RAM and 60GB storage
  4. Leave the rest default
  5. Follow the Distros installing process as usual
  6. Delete the VM if you are done

Important note: using distrobox or toolbox you can run packages of pretty much any distro on your Laptop. I am currently using Ubuntu PPA VLC 4.0 on Fedora Kinoite.

[-] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

So virt manager, KVM, and qemu is the recommendation solution for this? Opposed to other methods like virtual box or gnome boxes or the other various virtualization platforms out there?

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I use Virt-manager as it supports some things with no GUI in Gnome boxes. Gnome boxes seems nice, but after trying certain things you get to a limit of functionalities.

Kvm ans qemu are always needed.

Gnome boxes has a flatpak, but that one has no usb support for some weird reason.

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