Re: Building LFS in VMware Workstation

"Steve Thomas" ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:04:05 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.support
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On 30/01/2026 16:51, "stephan" ([email protected] via 
lfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> Hi Steve. Maybe of limited usefulness, but I’ve just built LFS 12.4 on 
> a Proxmox VM using a Debian host. I installed LFS to a .img file and 
> attached that to a new vm from which I can boot. I’ve also had success 
> in enabling the virtiofs kernel flag to allow my host storage to mount 
> to LFS, which makes setting somethings up without networking much 
> easier. Maybe there are some commonalities between VMWare and Proxmox 
> that would be helpful.
>
Hi Stephan,

Yes I did think about using host storage direct but decided against 
since I use it for other stuff as well.

How do you find the graphics performance ? Which driver does it use for 
the virtual gpu or do you pass-thru from the host ?

Thanks.

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