swtpm VS quickemu

Or you can just add a virtual tpm device in virt-manager while setting up the vm using swtpm. It seems to ha e packages on most major distro's.

If you want Windows 11 instead for whatever reason, swtpm can emulate a TPM chip for QEMU to use.

You can find the source of software TPM implementations which abide to the official spec such as: https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm but that has no real bearings on the TPM used on real hardware

I install swtpm and in virt-manager add a TPM 2.0 emulated device and set the secure boot image before I install. This seems to work well enough.

I don't know either, but apparently Microsoft didn't guarantee that 'unsupported' systems would continue to receive system updates. I just use a QEMU VM and swtpm.

swtpm - a software Trusted Platform Module emulator and the ways of using it;

Seems there are two such projects for that:

https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm

This should work: https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/wiki

Linux has several TPM emulators. This one is probably the most popular. But here's another for TPM 1.2 only. The main use-case is to emulate TPMs for use with Virtual Machine guests.

Other GitHub posts from previous versions seem to have the issue described here but maybe I missed something, https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/issues/572 I'm on an arch install and just installed it from pacman.

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?