My three hour tour involved a two week voyage through computer heel once again!!
After Windoze kept resetting my video driver because it did not like my second display hookup, I kicked it off my laptop...
Now I have another computer that is an old HP 640Z and I wanted to be able to use that as a virtualization host....
Turns out that the video card in that system is an older Nvidiot kepler chip that the modern Nvidiot drivers don't understand....
I went thru every distro I had!! About 200 of them and the only ones that understood and automatically loaded the correct drivers were 2 distros!!
I had a choice between Ghost BSD and Manjaro!!!
In order to connect to the internet I tried a couple of advertized "driverless" USB dongles....no dice for Manjaro!! Still wouldn't connect or recognize the dongle...
OK,,,Ghost BSD had no problem with one of the dongles...cool!
Now I try to setup virtualization....VirtualBox is in the repositories as well as QUEMUOUS...I just wish they made the name without so many vowells!!
Well lo and behold the version of virtualbox is 6.1 and only does 32 bit!! Really??? Seaweed, Jeffrey???
ARGH!! The same with QUEMUOUS!!! 32 bit only!!!
Now I spend another week trying to download drivers to get Manjaro to load the USB dongles....no go... I think from now on I'm gonna call them Dangles!! As they just don't dang work!!
Option number three...get a wireless router and use it in range extender mode, hook up the Ethernet cable to the computer to the router and bingo! I'm now back on...still no luck with vuitualiztion for any of the two working display compatable distros...Ghost and Manjaro....
Back to square negative one....
Load up Garuda...get to load the right Nvidiot drivers after using compatability mode....now have a full display...get the latest version of Virtualbox installed...and now run Windoze in a VM where it cannot change my video display!! And poof! I'm back!! I think I'll sleep another two weeks to rest up for the next poseidon advanture!! There's got to be a morning after!!!