{"id":34866,"date":"2025-10-24T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34866"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:13:30","slug":"fun-with-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34866","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal people do not run Emacs or <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xanda.org\/2008\/05\/25\/installing-xmms-on-ubuntu-804\/\">build XMMS, a multimedia player, from source<\/a> in a Linux Mint 5 virtual machine, but, my friends, I am not normal people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251024_132425.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of LMDE7, showing my Linux Mint 5 virtual machine running\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34867\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I&#8217;m listening to WFMT&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/radionetwork.wfmt.com\/programs\/vince-guaraldis-christmas-gift-to-jazz-with-jana-lee-ross\/\">Vince Guaraldi&#8217;s Christmas Gift to Jazz<\/a>,&#8221; an hour-long program with some Guaraldi music and covers of his music for <i>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why would I do such a silly thing?<\/p>\n<p>Emacs is for writing.  I&#8217;ve been doing some outlining and development work in it, and running it in a VM has some distraction-free advantages.<\/p>\n<p>XMMS was a little bit of an experiment.  The computer I&#8217;m writing this on is an Mini PC, and it&#8217;s a little low on the horsepower.  I can&#8217;t have a browser open and play music at the same time&#8230; but a music player in an ancient (2008!) virtual machine runs without a hitch with the browser running, maybe because the VM is walled off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird, but it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal people do not run Emacs or build XMMS, a multimedia player, from source in a Linux Mint 5 virtual machine, but, my friends, I am not normal people. FWIW, I&#8217;m listening to WFMT&#8217;s &#8220;Vince Guaraldi&#8217;s Christmas Gift to Jazz,&#8221; an hour-long program with some Guaraldi music and covers of his music for A Charlie<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34866\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Fun with Virtual Machines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[4860,5331],"class_list":["post-34866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-xmms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}