On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 03:35:24PM +1100, russell@coker.com.au wrote:
As Allan noted DKMS is the ideal solution to that problem. But it's still a reason for me to avoid it. I currently have DKMS in place for zfsonlinux on some of my systems and don't want the added pain of multiple DKMS installations.
FYI, 'dkms mkbmdeb' now actually works to create a binary-only package. It didn't do anything that was actually useful for years, but that was fixed earlier this year. Unfortunately, it doesn't add a Provides: line, so you'll need to use equivs to satisfy dependencies. [ ... 5 mins later ... ] actually, it does now. the bug report I submitted about this has been closed, somebody submitted a patch back in October. I didn't get an email telling me though (BTS has always been a bit unreliable about email notifications in my experience) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830670
Doesn't KVM/Qemu work with MS-DOS and MS-Win?
yep, it does. Virtualbox has better graphics support for the VM without messing around with PCI passthrough and installing a second GPU card, which generally only matters for games and other things that really need good, fast graphics rendering. I've used KVM with a few Win XP & Win 7 VMs. Works well enough. If I wanted to play windows games with KVM, I'd probably install another GPU. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>