Websites for current Vbox guest images?

nycace36 · 02-10-2022, 10:50 AM

Am keenly interested in downloading more current Linux distro VirtualBox Disk Images (VDIs) and already visited last year's The 4 Best Sites to Download Virtual Disk Images for VirtualBox

In summary:

OSBoxes' VirtualBox Images has some (but not all) desirable and updated VDIs.
VirtualBoxes' Free VirtualBox Images has definitely outdated VDIs and OVAs
Weebly's VirtualBox - Virtual Disk Images has older MS-Windows VDIs!
Sysprobs' Download Pre Installed VirtualBox Images (Linux, Windows & Others) has a mix of older Linux VDIs plus more updated MS-Windows OVAs and VHDs

Any sites other than these for getting more current Linux distro VDIs??
To be used as testing and configuration purposes and possibly even for "bare metal" installs

Thanks in advance for help here

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michaelk · 02-10-2022, 11:01 AM

Why not just download the ISO and install from scratch?

jefro · 02-10-2022, 02:47 PM

I remember using some of those images from some of those sites. Generally they would built by some person and not the distro so some issue of security maybe.

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/ is one that I've suggested but use it for learning maybe and then re-create.

Suse used to have a way to build them but took it offline. Open build system can still be used locally.

Almost every distro has a vm or did.

nycace36 · 02-11-2022, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by nycace36

Any sites other than these for getting more current Linux distro VDIs??
To be used as testing and configuration purposes and possibly even for "bare metal" installs

Other advantages of downloading & using pre-made Linux distro VDIs for specific "testing purposes" vs full-blown ISOs (as either install or liveDVDs) are:

They're usually provided in zip format, which makes them download faster due to lower bandwidth
They're usually better tested to work in Vbox without all those post-install configuration steps we all love to do

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michaelk · 02-11-2022, 10:32 AM

I get it. I am only familiar with OSBoxes and would expect the VDIs or OVAs provided are at the whim of the people that run the website. Providing current images in a constantly changing environment would be a quite a task.