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quickemu
- Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs
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How to run macOS on Linux (without too much hassle) [video]
Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui
(I've been using it for annual chores on windows)
- Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.
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Possible downsides or issues with this solution?
Also: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues/88
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Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma
Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)
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Wanting to ditch windows 10 in favor of linux
In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.
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DistroSea- Test drive Linux distros online
VM will be shutdown automatically when it's inactive for a while. I will eventually add more distros going forward. Most distro isos are downloaded using the quickget script from the wonderful quickemu project. You may directly contribute to the upstream project to get the distro added to DistroSea.
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Is it possible to run a Windows 11 Virtual Machine on Linux?
If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
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Virter: a "Docker for VMs"
Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu?
dot
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Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux
Yes! https://github.com/kingdonb/dot/blob/ubuntu-vm/bin/qemu
This expects you're using the special qemu from the prior link, compiled with homebrew. (else I think there will be no virtio-vga-gl video driver?)
The guest OS is an Ubuntu VM. I think the instructions say to use a recent Fedora/Silverblue for a reason (there are some things that don't quite work right around window resizing.)
Each time I start the VM, it shows up with tiny tiny pixels and the menubar does not work. I switch to another app, switch back, go to the menu and enable "zoom to fit" and it's off to the races. Other things to be aware of, if you resize the window it actually scales the pixels, (which is OK and doesn't even have any noticeable perf impact because OpenGL, I guess)
What are some alternatives?
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
hotplugger - VirtIO (VFIO) USB Port passthrough helper
homebrew-qemu-virgl - A homebrew tap for qemu with support for 3d accelerated guests
OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
virtualbox-org-svn-vbox-trunk - *UNOFFICIAL* mirror of the repository at http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk (the first 30569 commits are courtesy of https://gitorious.org/virtualbox/mainlinemirror); Please **DO NOT** open pull requests against this repo
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.
virt-manager - Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
kvm-guest-drivers-windows - Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM
macOS-KVM - Streamlined macOS QEMU KVM Hackintosh configuration using OpenCore and libvirt