quickemu VS quickgui

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.

Also: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues/88

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.

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.

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?

Absolutely. I run all kinds of things like that - k8s kubelet, docker, qemu, kvm. To manage them I tend to use Podman, virt-manager, and this less-well-known-but-still-useful script for qemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu for which someone wrote a front-end for: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui

FWIW, I got leary of Gnome Boxes (probably because I usually need to run a commercial OS like Windows) and found myself pretty happy with quickemu/quickgui - https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui

imo this is where it's at right now: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu There's even a flutter-based GUI (https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui), if that's your thing.

Quickemu along with the Quickgui frontend.

[quickemu] is excellent if you just need a quick way to install and test other OSs, it even has a GUI now for downloading/installing the OSs and basic management.

I would suggest instead, setting up a Ubuntu VM and using QuickEmu GitHub linkquickemu GitHub. And also the QuickGUI GitHub project. link. It's much simpler to setup VMs and is very efficient with resources.

I recommend trying it out via quickemu if you don't want to test it on bare-metal. Works fine for me for testing distro and creating VMs quickly even on Fedora (the dnf @virtualization meta-package seems to cover all of the requirements aside for virgl which I think is snap-only?).