My first try with Ubuntu failed as its live USB ISO did not contain a persistent option. As I learned about qemu more recently the idea has given itself to apply it to give a second try with Ubuntu. While I do not really have enough disk space on my nice&neat little Sandisk Cruzer Fit only 32GB I still thought I give it a try. Moving ISO files across was painful. While using bitorrent on Synology did help to get the image in the house when I downloaded it to the Sandisk it was painfully slow. Nevermind it was high time to get my next gadget from amazon anyway so a 128GB SSD in nice&neat little USB 3.0 form factor is on its way now supporting over 200MB/s transfer rate.
But back to the Ubuntu try: I found this article https://linuxhint.com/install_qemu_debian/ that focused on hardware acceleration so I thought I follow this one but with Ubuntu instead of Alpine. It turned out that the maximum memory that can be used is 2GB and the minimum disk space needed is 9GB so I used these parameters and started to install the 20.04 LTS with minimum configuration but it kept halting. Maybe I better wait for the new USB key with this...
[UPDATE]
As it did not install even overnight I checked again what is behind 200MB/s headline number and found a lot of misery with write speed in the reviews so I cancelled the new card and thought about a new strategy of using a separated SD card in the SD card slot in my laptop to install Ubuntu on it. This went reasonably fast so the next step on getting familiar with Ubuntu has been accomplished.
[UPDATE]
As it did not install even overnight I checked again what is behind 200MB/s headline number and found a lot of misery with write speed in the reviews so I cancelled the new card and thought about a new strategy of using a separated SD card in the SD card slot in my laptop to install Ubuntu on it. This went reasonably fast so the next step on getting familiar with Ubuntu has been accomplished.
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