quickemu VS kvm-guest-drivers-windows

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

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)

[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...

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.

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)

In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.

+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

Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu?

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.

Note also: it just got an experimental Windows driver!

[1]https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull...

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!

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

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...