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    i use qemu 4.0 to do just that (4.1 requires stuff from current, and
    I didn't want to pollute my host slack stable)<br>
    something like<br>
    qemu-img create -f qcow2 /data/images/slack14.2_64bit_base.qcow2
    100G<br>
    will create a virtual disk drive 100G which you can snapshot, if you
    want to reverse changes,<br>
    configuring the bridge in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf<br>
    create /etc/qemu/bridge.conf  containing a single line<br>
    allow br0<br>
    <br>
    and using<br>
    nohup qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu qemu64 -smp 4 -m 8G -drive
    file=/data/images/slack14.2_64bit_base.qcow2,format=qcow2 -cdrom
    /mnt/smb1/slackware/iso/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso -boot c
    -net nic,macaddr=02:00:00:11:11:18,model=i82551 -net bridge,br=br0
    -enable-kvm -k en-gb -display vnc=:1 -monitor
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="telnet:localhost:7100,server,nowait,nodelay">telnet:localhost:7100,server,nowait,nodelay</a> &<br>
    <br>
    runs a vm with 8GB ram (assuming you have enough real ram to give it
    that), a virtual dvd drive with the slack installer iso - for
    installing, and setting the output to vnc and telnet. this way you
    can telnet to see the console tty, or/and vnc (port 5901 to see it
    and any xwindows stuff you run, and off course if you set it up, you
    can telnet or ssh to the vm directly as well.<br>
    <br>
    obviously change the paths to suit your preferred setup.<br>
    <br>
    Regards, Tim<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/04/2020 14:43, Glenn Becker
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        <div>I am thinking of buying a smallish laptop to dedicate to
          Slackware. I've usually done double-, triple- and occasionally
          more- boot machines, but my distro-hopping is (I think!)
          coming to an end.</div>
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        <div>And I was wondering ... if I ran slack-current as my main
          system, but ran slack-stable in a VM, could I use the latter
          to work on my SlackBuilds? I'm by no means well-versed in what
          is possible or impossible with VMs.</div>
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        <div>Thanks,</div>
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        <div>Glenn Becker<br>
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