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featured ,

I use libvirt to do all my kvm/qemu stuff on my server. Using cockpit-machines web UI as a frontend. On my workstation if I ever need a VM I usually turn to Gnome Boxes for simplicity

thingsiplay ,

Qemu+Kvm with virt-manager is my boy nowadays. But I’m not a heavy user of Vms, just experimented with this to build some Flatpak. But plan on trying out other distributions, just for science. It wasn’t easy to figure out how to share a folder, and I could not get drag and drop or clipboard share to work. Still though, its faster than any other solution. I used VirtualBox in the past, which was easy to work with.

furry ,
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@Mwa qemu :blobfoxcomfycomputer:

bjoern_tantau ,
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Usually VirtualBox. It’s easy and free.

Mwa OP , (edited )
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I agree ngl i prefer vmware more

Diplomjodler3 ,

Me three.

frankenswine ,

a rather odd choice given the alternatives

bjoern_tantau ,
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Besides VMWare it always seemed the easiest for me to quickly make a Windows VM or so. Everything else usually had more configuration steps. But that’s been a while ago. There could very well have been easier tools available in the mean time. I never bothered to look.

I only ever used “permanent” virtualization once on my server. I think with Xen. But it didn’t give me any benefits for my use case so I dropped it later on. Also probably at least ten years ago.

bruce965 , (edited )
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None, I use Docker for Linux, and Proton (Heroic) for Windows.

But if I had to pick a virtual machine: libvirt with virt-manager as a frontend, which uses KVM for virtualization.

Mwa OP ,
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But if I had to pick a virtual machine: libvirt with virt-manager as a frontend, which uses KVM for virtualization.

Its fair bcs vmware workstation does not support gpu passthrough libvirt with virt-manager is the only way

Nomecks ,

OpenShift Virtualization

mitrosus ,

Can virt-manager boot windows boxes?

med ,

Yeah, though there’s some commandline shenanigans to get a tpm shim set up if you want it for windows 11

mitrosus ,

I am planning for XP.

QuazarOmega ,

Absolutely, it’s also made way easier with quickemu, allows you to spin up a properly configured Windows VM with pretty much no effort

krash ,

Correct me I’d I’m wrong, but with docker you’re limited to the filesyatems and the image of the OS you’re installing. If you need to experiment with the pre-OS boot events, can that even be accomplished with docker? E.g., trying out different GRUB settings, setting up LUKS with dropbear etc. I think those things require a VM.

bruce965 ,
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Yeah, you are correct. Docker shares the kernel with the host operating system, it doesn’t use hardware virtualization. That’s why it’s so fast and simple, but it also means it’s not a traditional VM and thus comes with some limitations.

fmstrat ,

From my other comment:

Then I created a Docker image with Linux, Gnome, and novnc so I can spin one up instantly with little resource overhead and control it from any web browser.

Maybe I should release my Dockerfile.

Telorand ,

I’m just now learning about Docker and Containerfiles, so I wouldn’t be opposed to a real world example…

fmstrat ,

And the example finally exists: nowsci.com/webbian/

Telorand ,

Neat! Gonna look over that!

bruce965 ,
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I might actually be interested. It’s like a lightweight alternative to Proxmox?

fmstrat ,

Sort of, Proxmox does use noVNC I think, but it’s a lot of overhead. This is just a docker command. I’ve finally put a page up for it: nowsci.com/webbian/

bruce965 ,
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I didn’t understand that you ran it without hardware virtualization. This is really convenient, thanks a lot for making it!

umbrella ,
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i’m listening.

fmstrat ,

Finally got around to it: nowsci.com/webbian/

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

i will be trying that one out for sure. this looks awesome for a headless desktop.

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