I work primarily from a Mac with Fusion and several VM's for a given purpose. Can someone point me in the direction of a purpose built VM that is command line only, No GUI.
Or possible some bread crumbs to create a VM.
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@Rinzwind is correct, you can just download a server or minimal/net install ISO of Debian or Ubuntu and install it very quickly as a VM. I did this yesterday using a Debian net install ISO, it's quick to download and install, and you are left with nothing but a beautiful, flashing prompt. Here's a direct link. https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst Just uncheck Debian Desktop Environment and select if you need servers when the menu ask.
You could also check here http://www.osboxes.org for a prebuilt machine, but I felt it was more hassle than building my own.I didn't see a CLI only download for Debian, but perhaps they'll have another distro. By time you search you could probably have built one.
You could also just clone one of your running VM and remove X and the DE.
There's three options for you. Good luck.
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