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[kristau]

Glad you found the winning combination!

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 7:02 AM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> I did get Centos 7 to with function correctly with VB  as a guest Vm.
>
> Here's  the process:
>
> Install VB 6.0 on a windows 10 host.
> Create a new VM using the osboxes Centos 7  image
> yum install kernel-headers, kernel-develop & gcc
> reboot
> yum update
> reboot
> install VB guest editions
> reboot
>
> Its looks like there are some issues with the VB guest additions with
> Centos 7 for any version of VB < 5.1.30
>
> Its a little painful getting started.  You couldn't see the mouse cursor
> with the VM using the base image. Even with the mouse captured, it wouldn't
> function correctly until the guest editions were installed.  I ended up
> having to use the keyboard to navigate.   You might have better luck
> starting with a fresh image rather than using a pre-made image.
>
> Looks like I can stick with Centos for a while.  However, with Ubuntu there
> was a lot less pain.  In the future I'm probably going to take a hard look
> at Ubuntu LTS.  Its desktop functions, are clearly a couple of steps beyond
> Centos.
>
> I think still that Centos is probably superior on the server side. Ubuntu
> LTS certainly is a contender, especially if you want to have a machine  for
> development that use same platform that you run on. The advantage would be
> that Ubuntu is less painful on the development side.
>
> :) Dave
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