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Has anyone noticed that they’ve started to get a bit stroppy with people asking for help since moving to the Discourse forum?

If you ask a generic Debian question now, you’re told to bugger off to Debian. It was never like that on the old vBulletin forum.
 
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I use virtual box and Ubuntu on my windows work laptop.

Annoyingly 24.04 doesn't run properly on the latest version of VB. You get graphical corruption when you enable the 3d graphics settings.

There is an open bug for it, they said they made improvements with VB 7.1.4 but I tried Ubuntu 24.04 again yesterday and it still exhibited the same problems.

Garbled graphics.

There is a workaround to enable using the older graphics backend but I like things to just work out of the box as intended.
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Haven’t tried this since but I don't think it's fixed yet.

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Just tried this now in Virtual Box 7.1.6 and just installing the os I am getting graphical corruption so it must definitely isn't fixed.
 
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Will upgrading to 25.04 wipe out all my 3rd party programmes and settings? I had to reinstall LibreWolf and Tailscale on my tablet after upgrading, which I think were the only non-official programmes installed on it.
 
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RavenLunatic said:
Will upgrading to 25.04 wipe out all my 3rd party programmes and settings? I had to reinstall LibreWolf and Tailscale on my tablet after upgrading, which I think were the only non-official programmes installed on it.
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Tailscale added their own repo to your system on install for updates, at worst something hinky might happen with the repo especially if you try to upgrade to 25.04 before tailscale have a chance to make the transition smooth. There's a chance you might need to edit the repo list to point to plucky instead of noble/oracular/whatever, but 24.04 has been released long enough that it's probably not an issue if it ever was. I never had an issue with tailscale's fedora repo when upgrading from 41 to 42, but ubuntu is not fedora.
 
I will backup my current install and give the update ago. At worst it will mess up my Flatpak and *.deb installs.I will look at it as a learning experience.
lol If it fails, I might just install from scratch! It would be good to remove the many miss-installs and configuration experiments I have made over the last couple of months :-)
 
I am not getting the option to upgrade :-(

Software Updater says 'The software on this computer is up to date'

Software and Update's Update tab is set to 'Notify me of a new Ubuntu version'

On terminal I get
Code: 
********@Ubuntu-PC1:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf InRelease                       
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-security InRelease       
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular InRelease
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-backports InRelease
6 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
********@Ubuntu-PC1:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Not upgrading yet due to phasing:
  apt  apt-transport-https  apt-utils  cloud-init  libapt-pkg6.0t64  xwayland

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 6
********@Ubuntu-PC1:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found.

Should I force the upgrade or just wait?
 
I could not wait so I
Code: 
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Everything seems to have survived :-)

Edit: had to roll back to 24.10 as VirtualBox wasn't working with the new kernel and dpkg was corrupt somehow. :-(

At least I now know my backups work :-)
 
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If you're just using virtualbox out of habit, consider giving kvm a try. virt-manager is a basic gui to manage kvm vm's.
 
I have 2 Windows VM's activated on VirtualBox, so it would be easier to continue using it.

I have used Virt-manager for a bit to manage aarch64 QEMU VM's i was experimenting with a while ago.

Is KVM is better supported? I think I have read somewhere KVM is built into Linux.
 
Tried loading one of my VM vdi's in virt-manager it was painfully slow and the guest BSOD after a couple of minutes. Possibility that the VirtualBox guest additions are causing the problem. I am assuming that creating a x86_64 VM in virt-manager automatically runs as a KVM hypervisor.
 
If you're wanting to use QEMU/KVM for Windows guests - you generally want to do some optimisations. KVM isn't the same sort of hypervisor as VirtualBox really, it's more of a type-1 whereas VirtualBox is very much a type-2. I haven't run Windows on KVM for years, but you used to have to ensure VirtIO was being used for Windows, I remember having to faff about with bcdedit. Then there's a whole heap of optimisations around CPU pinning/isolation etc. I did a lot of KVM in an Enterprise environment though, so this was fairly bread and butter for me. I only did Windows Server too. I also only used Debian/Centos so again ymmv. I don't know if any of the Canonical nonsense would cause issues with KVM.
 
Ok, I think I will stick with VirtualBox.

I am going to uninstall VB run the upgrade to 25.04 again, and then try to re-install VB fresh. Hopefully the VB and dpkg issues wont happen again..

Edit VB still won't install and dpkg is still broken. I am thinking it may be corruption on my 24.10 installation.

Edit 2 VirtualBox works just fine on a fresh install of 25.04. I think I broke dpkg somehow and thats why the upgrade failed.

Edit 3 KVM needs to be blacklisted in the new Kernel for VirtualBox to work. This might have been the problem to begin with.
 
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I dipped my toes into Ubuntu a few days ago. The aim is to have a Minecraft Bedrock server running for my son and his friends.
I was quite impressed with the layout and how easy it is to use. Now I have to learn to setup the firewall, the bedrock server and the allow list.json.
Seen a few guides but each one is slightly different that makes me question what am I doing lol.
Either way, I like it and it's running on an old Hp 400G3 mini with a core i3 7100t.
I am considering buying a router to replace the bog standard BT router, WiFi 6 will be a bonus too.
 
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