Tag Archives: virtualbox

Own packages repository

Posted on 2018-09-09 by

I decided to try and make my own repository of precompiled packages from SBo. Exactly the same idea as SlackOnly, but made by me for my own use (not public). The tool to use is SlackRepo, which has extensive documentation, … Continue reading →

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Heroes III in a Windows VM

Posted on 2016-07-09 by

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about playing Heroes III natively in Linux thanks to the VCMI project. Unfortunatelly, the VCMI engine is not yet stable enough for me to consider the game playable. It turned out to … Continue reading →

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Virtual machine settings 2

Posted on 2016-03-17 by

This is ridiculous. Some time ago I ‘fixed’ the setting of my VirtualBox. However, I experienced segfaults again. I am using VirtualBox version 5.0.14 r105127 on Slackware64 14.1 -multilib. The host machine is running Slackware64 -current and the program in … Continue reading →

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Virtual machine settings

Posted on 2015-08-02 by

I keep clean installs of Slackware 32bit and 64bit in order to check how my SlackBuilds work. Currently, I use Oracle VM VirtualBox, installed on a Slackware64 14.1 -multilib system from the upstream provided binary (“All distributions”), AMD64 architecture (version … Continue reading →

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Virtualbox shared folder

Posted on 2012-06-25 by

Problem: I have to use a virtual machine running Slackware32 to test build the scripts I maintain at SlackBuilds.org. Therefore I need an easy way to transfer the scripts and other files between the host and guest machines. Solution: I … Continue reading →

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