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MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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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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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Is it possible to run a Windows 11 Virtual Machine on Linux?
+1 for QuickEmu. I was able to try out Windows 11 in a VM on a PC that is not supported by Windows 11.
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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VirGL
Note also: it just got an experimental Windows driver!
[1]https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull...
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Windows guest in KVM on Fedora filesystem passthrough
I managed to make it work by following the tips here and here, just install the necessary as indicated in the first link and then read the second one to edit the Virtual Machine XML and correctly add the device. Just one more thing, due to a bug in the Windows driver, it is necessary also to add queue="1024" in the "driver" line, so it will looks like this (read the instructions in the second link to know which line to edit):
Your welcome. I hope that over the time this process will become simpler, and also that it will become the standard for both Linux and Windows guests. While it doesn't happen, whenever possible update the driver to new versions and if possible report any issues in the GitHub repository. Good luck!
- Windows VirtIO driver documentation on fedoraproject.org is now 404, but why?
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Testing many repos/issues
Issues: https://github.com/HFOSSedu/kwurst-kit-review/issues/8 https://github.com/iron-fish/ironfish/issues/912 https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/721 https://github.com/HFOSSedu/kwurst-kit-review/issues/6 https://github.com/HFOSSedu/kwurst-kit-review/issues/5 https://github.com/abhi-kr-2100/sentence-collector/issues/2 https://github.com/HFOSSedu/kwurst-kit-review/issues/23 https://github.com/HFOSSedu/kwurst-kit-review/issues/26 https://github.com/bcgov/performance/issues/382 https://github.com/lodash/lodash/issues/5360 https://github.com/sanctuarycomputer/sanctu-dot-com/issues/138
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WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
VirtIO changed license from GPL to BSD so that it could be signed by Microsoft. See here: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/comm...
- Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
What are some alternatives?
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
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.
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
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
macOS-KVM - Streamlined macOS QEMU KVM Hackintosh configuration using OpenCore and libvirt
tmoe - TMOE, More Optional Environments.
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
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
winapps - Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
libvirt-dist - Libvirt XML Files for Derivative Linux Distributions KVM - https:/www.kicksecure.com/wiki/KVM / https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM