Re: MX Linux

On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:57:58 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 23/06/2026 18:26, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:32:24 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6/22/26 09:46, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:27:22 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> rbowman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> a clean, up to date document on creating a bridge for QEMU would be
>>>>>> nice. Screwing around with 'sudo ip link ....' makes me nervous. It
>>>>>> took a bit to get rid of the bridge on the Fedora box.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's wrong with bridged networking (for wired ethernet)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Adding a switch is exactly what you'd do in the world of physical
>>>>> networks, a L2 switch is just a multi-port bridge ...
>>>>
>>>> Nothing would be wrong if it had worked. Perhaps I didn't create the
>>>> bridge correctly.
>>>
>>>     VBox, it Just Works first time  :-)
>> 
>> After you find a distro where it will work at all...
>> 
> As usual Linux Mint seems to be OK
> 
> Although I haven't installed it recently

The last time I tried VB would start but would fail with missing 
dependencies. I just installed virtualbox-7.10.16. It loaded DKMS files, 
built, and installed two modules. lsmod shows vboxnetsdp, vboxnetflt, 
vboxdrv.

The interesting one when grepping for vbox 'kvm  vboxdrv, kvm_intel' shows 
up. I had the Leap 16 offline iso handy and it is installing at the 
moment. That will take a while.

Interesting that it builds the modules for the 6.17.0.14-generic kernel 
while it seems to be a DIY process for Leap 16. Among other things the 
error dialog on Leap 16 says it requires make, gcc, and kernel-devel 
headers. The Mint box does not have make.