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Run a Virtual Machine in Your Browser

Daniel Chifamba on October 06, 2024

We're going to run a complete virtual machine right here in your browser! And not just run the VM - we'll boot up both FreeDOS and Alpine Linux. "W...
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Göran Svensson

How useful is it? Can you code in it and deploy to github?

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Daniel Chifamba • Edited

It's just for fun, really 😅

Would this count? Coding in Nano then pushing to GitHub 😊

Video: streamable.com/p80yom
Output: github.com/nadchif/hello-world/com...

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Derick

cool

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Aaron Gong • Edited

able to run Kali Linux or some other distro such as Ubuntu (Server version)?

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Daniel Chifamba • Edited

💡 It would be nice to find out. My guess is it's likely to be very very slow, if it works at all. You will need an i386 image.

If you do try please share the outcome 😄

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Aaron Gong

ok will do so when I get the chance!

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StarKnight

thank you man tried it, well working.

Here I shared it on X - VM on browser

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Axorax

neat

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Duc Nguyen Thanh

Oh, lol, very nice

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Anjan Shomodder

will try it for sure. thanks

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Best Codes

Very cool!

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Syed Muhammad Ali Raza

👍

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Le Vuong

Strange application for a browser. Nice !