Which VirtualBox should I use? The one from Oracle or from the repos? I would like to try out Kubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 while keeping Kubuntu 16.04 for daily work..
I only have a (very decent) WiFi connection. No ethernet. Can I install whichever VirtualBox and guest additions on such a system?
Some information about my system:
The graphics is modest and integrated. But hard disk space is not a limitation, I think:
I only have a (very decent) WiFi connection. No ethernet. Can I install whichever VirtualBox and guest additions on such a system?
Some information about my system:
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System: Host: chi-Inspiron-15-3567 Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.8 (Qt 5.6.1) Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: System: Dell (portable) product: Inspiron 15-3567
Mobo: Dell model: 0FGN4M v: A00 Bios: Dell v: 01.07.00 date: 04/07/2017
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-6006U (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 7968
clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 500 MHz 2: 500 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-3: Atheros usb-ID: 001-006
IF: null-if-id state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (14.5% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD1 size: 1000.2GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: External_USB_3.0 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 443G used: 52G (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.31GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 192 Uptime: 4:57 Memory: 1366.7/7851.2MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
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sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for chimak: Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 1ACBE91E-130E-446E-9740-008010615D1D Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System /dev/sda2 1026048 7317503 6291456 3G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 7317504 994982023 987664520 471G Linux filesystem /dev/sda4 1937289216 1953523711 16234496 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda5 994983936 1937289215 942305280 449.3G Linux filesystem Partition table entries are not in disk order. $
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$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 786M 9.5M 776M 2% /run /dev/sda5 443G 52G 369G 13% / tmpfs 3.9G 24M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1 496M 35M 462M 7% /boot/efi tmpfs 786M 0 786M 0% /run/user/118 tmpfs 786M 20K 786M 1% /run/user/1001 $
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