Hey Folks!
I recently installed ArcaOS 5.01 in VirtualBox 5.1.3 running in Debian Stretch, so I thought I would follow up to some previous posts I saw on the subject.
In general the install went well. Rather than a fresh VM, I installed on an existing VM with a Warp 4.52 installation that I did a year or so ago. I did this simply to avoid reinstalling my old software.
The only problem area has been the sound card. What I have discovered as have others is that if you initially think the card is not working, it may be a volume issue. I initially installed the SB16 non PnP virtual card and used the ALSA driver in VirtualBox. At first this did not seem to work, but as I noted it was a volume issue. Turning up the host sound to max and the VM sound to max gave an audible result in the VM.
I had better luck with the Arca Noae universal sound driver and a virtual ACH97 card, again using the ALSA driver in VirtualBox. With the VM volume at max and the host volume at about 80%, the sound in the VM was mostly audible and the host sound was not intolerable. If you're using sound on the host, having the volume at 100%+ is not really a viable option.
Using the VirtualBox PulseAudio driver yielded similar results. Using the OSS driver in VirtualBox did not work.
I also installed the Injoy Firewall. This locked up the system on booting. I haven't tried to fix the Injoy issue. I just reverted to a snapshot of the VM prior to the Injoy install.
I've since been looking at the IBM Firewall that came with Warp and that is included in ArcaOS. Would anyone have a set of rules for a home NAT that they would share? I've spent a lot of time reading and fiddling with the fwfiltrs.cnf file with no success.
For your amusement, I have attached two photos of the two installations. As you can see, I'm used to an Object Desktop environment, so I kinda recreated it in ArcaOS. I just needed to add the new SmartBar program from Hobbes to get the monitors and have XWorkplace look pretty close to Object Desktop.
Thanks.