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Author: William Peckham
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Migration
I have migrated a Virtualbox guest from one workstation to another so the
first could be reloaded with a newer OS and newer version of Virtualbox

On Fri, May 5, 2023, 11:27 <dng-request@???> wrote:

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>    1. Re: upgrade of abonded Devuan Jessie (Steve Litt)
>    2. Re: upgrade of abonded Devuan Jessie (Antony Stone)
>    3. Re: migrate to devuan testing (Ismael L. Donis Garcia)

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> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 09:52:06 -0400
> From: Steve Litt <slitt@???>
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> Subject: Re: [DNG] upgrade of abonded Devuan Jessie
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> Bruce Perens via Dng said on Thu, 4 May 2023 10:48:46 -0700
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> >I won't ask how you got into this situation :-)
> >
> >I have a remote site 5 hours drive from my home with no remote hands.
> >I use PiKVM. See https://pikvm.org/
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> I don't understand what I'm seeing on https://pikvm.org/ . What's it
> supposed to do? Is it supposed to work in tandem with a more powerful
> computer, or is it standalone?
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> Thanks,
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> SteveT
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> Steve Litt
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 14:57:35 +0100
> From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???>
> To: dng@???
> Subject: Re: [DNG] upgrade of abonded Devuan Jessie
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> On Friday 05 May 2023 at 14:52:06, Steve Litt wrote:
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> > Bruce Perens via Dng said on Thu, 4 May 2023 10:48:46 -0700
> >
> > >I won't ask how you got into this situation :-)
> > >
> > >I have a remote site 5 hours drive from my home with no remote hands.
> > >I use PiKVM. See https://pikvm.org/
> >
> > I don't understand what I'm seeing on https://pikvm.org/ . What's it
> > supposed to do? Is it supposed to work in tandem with a more powerful
> > computer, or is it standalone?
>
> It is a network-connected Keyboard-Video-Mouse device, made with a
> Raspberry
> Pi.
>
> In other words, no matter what state some other computer is in (turned
> off,
> running fine, stuck at a Grub prompt, stuck in the Bios with "Keyboard
> error,
> press F1 to continue", or whatever), then if you have one of these
> connected
> to it, this thing has power and an Internet connection, you can then work
> on
> the other machine as though you were sitting in front of it with a
> keyboard
> and a screen.
>
>
> Antony.
>
> --
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 16:12:34 -0400
> From: "Ismael L. Donis Garcia" <slibre@???>
> To: "Devuan" <dng@???>
> Subject: Re: [DNG] migrate to devuan testing
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> Devuan updated to daedalus without any failure during the update process
> and everything working correctly.
>
> A million thanks to everyone who in one way or another contributes to this
> great project.
>
> Best Regards
> --
> Ismael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rich W via Dng
> To: Devuan
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2023 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [DNG] migrate to devuan testing
>
>
> Ismael,
>
>
> At this point, I would consider using QEMU if you are running on Linux
> hosts.
> It's said to be faster when used with KVM.
>
>
> Simple interface for it:
> https://packages.debian.org/stable/aqemu
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> -Rich
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 2:34 PM Ismael L. Donis Garcia <slibre@???>
> wrote:
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>     I've been thinking about migrating to devuan testing, but I'm worried
> that I have virtual pc's in virtualbox which are essential to me.

>
>     Has anyone from the forum migrated to testing with  virtual pc in
> virtualbox?

>
>     Best Regards
>     --
>     Ismael
>     Devuan User: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan
>     Web Site: https://gitlab.uic.cu/ismael.donis/
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