I have bought your Endless Mini PC. The OS looks amazing and neat, kudos to the development team. I tried to install some debian apps, but I couldn’t run them as it is restricted by the OS.
So, I tried to create a Virtual Machine in GNOME Boxes to work with the debian apps. When creating the virtual machine, it showed an error message saying that:
"Virtualization extensions are unavailable on your system Check your BIOS settings to enable them"
During the boot I tried all the common BIOS keys but the BIOS menu never showed up, but instead it brings up many lines of code.
Something that would help us a lot to understand the problem would be this:
Open the application called ‘Terminal’
In this application run the command:
eos-diagnostics
The above command will create a file with the information of your system (example: eos-diagnostic-160614_111731_UTC + 0100.txt); Send us this file so we can analyze and see a possible solution
The Endless OS is only compatible with Flatpak Applications.
You can install using the toolbox command. The Toolbox is a tool that offers a familiar RPM based environment for developing and debugging software that runs fully unprivileged using Podman. I recommend reading the toolbox command documentation using the command toolbox --help or toolbox/doc at main · debarshiray/toolbox · GitHub
No, the hardware does not have support for virtualization. It may be possible to do software virtualization but it sounds like GNOME Boxes does not support this, and it would be terribly terribly slow.
If you just want to have the freedom of installing Debian packages, podman/toolbox as mentioned above is your best option. This uses native containers instead of virtualization. I am not 100% sure if it works on the ARM product you have purchased, but maybe you can try and report back.
