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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?
kvm-guest-drivers-windows
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Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
There's mature VirtIO drivers for just about everything already, under the virtio-win umbrella: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
My desktop PC is using libvirt+qemu (on an Arch host. I use Arch, btw) to PCI passthru my RTX 4090 GPU to a Windows guest. I installed the guest initially with emulated SATA for the main drive. Once Windows was up and running, I installed virtio-win and the guest is now using virtIO accelerated drivers for the network interface, main disk. I'm also sharing some filesystems using virtio-fs.
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Help with my setup
So, I started configuring the PC with ubuntu desktop (since I need a GUI for my use case). Then I setup a windows KVM with this. In my use case, I want the windows VM to be always connected to a VPN (Mullvad) that has the toggle of LAN connections turned on. This is because I want to use sunshine on the KVM to stream my desktop to a firestick. This is how I have been configuring one PC till now for my family to be able to watch TV. The issue is that I cannot use sunshine or parsec cos there are no encoders in the VM, thus the performance sucks. (I could use software encoders, but I would use too much CPU for windows VM, which would make me unable to run a LLM (this was my plan) )
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VirGL
Note also: it just got an experimental Windows driver!
[1]https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull...
- [viogpu3d] Virtio GPU 3D acceleration for windows by max8rr8 · Pull Request #943 · virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
- Virtio GPU 3D acceleration for windows
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Libvirt/virtio: Limited resolution on Windows guests
virtio-GPU for Windows for now is just a basic display driver, without any kind of acceleration, so there shouldn't be any difference between using it and QXL, which is fully emulated and in it, if necessary, you can increase the VRAM to be able to use high resolutions, as explained here. Note: this link is just from a quick search, I tried this for myself some time ago but my intention was not to increase the resolution but just to find out if it was possible to have some kind of 3D acceleration, as it happens in VirtualBox, but is not possible yet.
- I Have passed through my gpu to windows VM in proxmox but not getting output via hdmi
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Why is the virt-manager display so slow?
The only sorta-responsive display tech I've found is Virt with GL (3D) enabled. And if your physical box has 4k video you can forget about going anywhere near full screen with that guest VM.
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Virtiofs slower than Samba file sharing?
I suggest you open a new issue in the repository describing this, or search if there is one open reporting the same. Also, keep in mind that as an early stage it might be a good idea to avoid copying important files using this, you could end up losing data unless you do an integrity check (recently I tried installing a game on the VM in a host directory and it didn't work. I'm thinking of an alternative or going back to using VirtualBox, since the shared folders worked very well for this purpose).
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Windows Server 2019 - vioscsi Warning (129) - locking up data drive
The problem was really bad with latest virtio drivers, so I downgraded to version 204, as per: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/623
What are some alternatives?
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
vgpu_unlock - Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs.
homebrew-qemu-virgl - A homebrew tap for qemu with support for 3d accelerated guests
LookingGlass - An extremely low latency KVMFR (KVM FrameRelay) implementation for guests with VGA PCI Passthrough.
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.
qemu-pinning - My QEMU fork with pinning (affinity) support and a few tweaks.
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
swtpm - Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface.
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.
dokany - User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper
virt-manager - Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
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