Hi Neville,
Well, all I can say is: when I boot Debian in my vm either via virt-manager
(method 1 providing a DE) or:
using the following commands (method 2: for running Debian headless):
LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system virsh list --all
Id Name State
------------------------------
- archlinux shut off
- clonezilla shut off
- debian10 shut off
- ubuntu18.04 shut off
just to take a look at what´s available, and then:
LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system virsh start debian10
after that:
LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system virsh domifaddr debian10
so see the correct ip-address and then:
firejail ssh rosika2@192.168.122.174
… I see that grub is made use of by installed Debian:
rosika2@debian ~> dpkg-query -l | grep grub
ii grub-common 2.06-3~deb10u1 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
ii grub-pc 2.06-3~deb10u1 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
ii grub-pc-bin 2.06-3~deb10u1 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS modules)
ii grub2-common 2.06-3~deb10u1 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)
…
So I guess grub should be supported by qemu.
Well, qemu can do that too.
I can start e.g. a Lubuntu iso thus:
firejail kvm --cdrom /media/rosika/Windows8_OS/Users/rosalia/Desktop/neue_ISOs_und_anderes/für_lubuntu/lubuntu_20.04.1/lubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso -cpu host -m 2048 -boot d
… and I can start any other iso (not EasyOS img though) which I put on my ventoy stick and redirect that stick to Debian (via settings in virt-manager).
No, I didn´t. Thanks for the link. I´ll look into it.
Many greetings from Rosika
P.S.:
I just fired up Debian and looked there.
rosika2@debian ~> env LANG=en_GB:en apt-get -s install grub-imageboot
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
syslinux-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
grub-imageboot syslinux-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Inst syslinux-common (3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-1 Debian:10.13/oldstable [all])
Inst grub-imageboot (0.6 Debian:10.13/oldstable [all])
Conf syslinux-common (3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-1 Debian:10.13/oldstable [all])
Conf grub-imageboot (0.6 Debian:10.13/oldstable [all])
So it´s available for Debian as well. I don´t know about other OSes though. Sorry.
That´s great .
Thanks for letting me know.
I know what it´s like to have to wait for internet-connection to be up and running again.