I use vmware and qemu

  • nickb333@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    If I’m running another Linux distro that will be happy under the host kernel then I use LXD (or Incus) containers. Otherwise it’s QEMU+KVM or occasionally Virtual Box.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I use LXD (or Incus) containers

      I’ve been curious about those for a while, what are they about, are they somehow better than the usual Docker/Podman conatiners?

      • nickb333@fedia.io
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        8 months ago

        They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.

  • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Virt manager for qemu. I use docker and distrobox for Linux distros

    I recently managed to use my windows partition (for dual boot) as a disk for a qemu. I don’t use it but really cool trick anyways. Tutorial here

    Also it’s not very healthy for windows since it is not designed for constant hardware changes. But idc all my apps are installed on D: so I can just reinstall it without thinking about it much

    • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I tried doing tbe same thing as you on my separate windows ssd gives me a error on bootup and qemu/kvm won’t let me boot from my vendor usb I tried only putting the isos and windows cannot find the ssd and hiren just gets a error

      • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Did you read the article I linked? They use RAID to create a virtual disk (similar to a loop device in this context)

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    xcp-ng. except now everything is just containers on atomic fedora because it seems to fit my laziness better and doesn’t require updating multiple vm os’s

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    I tried using virt-manager+kvm to try some stuff out the other day but I failed to set-up some crucial things. Probably me being incompetent.

    Not like virtualization is a big part of my life anyway. I just wanted to try some other distros and such without rebooting.

    If I were to get serious about virtualization I’d need to build a new PC with a second GPU. Then I could stop dual-booting and do everything with VMs. But it’d only be worth it to get serious about learning how to virtualize stuff if I were to do that.

      • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I have two GPUs - an RX 550 hooked to the monitors and 580 for VMs. Until recently, once the VM shut down, the 580 was able to return to Linux and be used again via PRIME - no reset bug. It randomly stopped working and I’ve tried to debug it to fix the problem to little avail.

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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          8 months ago

          I actually may have seen the same issue recently. Have you tried adding initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init to your kernel launch params?

          • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            8 months ago

            I’ll have to try that. What I have tried so far is running a different kernel version and making sure my driver blacklists are correct (I found that the GPU shouldn’t ever connect to snd_hda_intel. It briefly eas again, but after fixing it, I still had the problem.).

            • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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              8 months ago

              For me, I have intel integrated + amd discrete. When I tried to set DRI_PRIME to 0 it complained that 0 was invalid, when I set it to 2 it said it had to be less than the number of GPUs detected (2). After digging in I noticed my cards in /dev/dri/by-path were card1 card2 rather than 0 and 1 like everyone online said they should be. Searching for that I found a few threads like this one that mentioned simpledrm was enabled by default in 6.4.8, which apparently broke some kind of enumeration with amd GPUs. I don’t really understand why, but setting that param made my cards number correctly, and prime selection works again.

              • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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                8 months ago

                Huh. My issue seems different, but I’ll still test that flag to see if it changes anything. My problem looks like the device doesn’t return to host after VM shutdown, possibly because of the reset bug (based on my observation of dmesg), which I hadn’t encountered after about a year of GPU passthrough VM usage.

    • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I never found a way to share a Public folder with VirtManager though, I need to move files between host and guest. How would you go about it?

      • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I go to the host folder I want to transfer files from and run ‘’’python3 -m http.server’’’. Then (I can’t remove if I use ‘’’ip a’’’ to find the IP address of the host or if I used mDNS), I use the guest web browser to download files.

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Raw qemu at the command line for the one I use on a daily basis (not recommended for the average user). VirtualBox if I need to spin something up quickly but don’t expect to need to keep it past the current testing cycle.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Virtualbox is slow and the licensing for guest addons is nasty. It is proprietary of course and if a person in a company uses it unlicensed they will send the company a massive invoice.

  • unn@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    virtmanager as frontend for qemu/kvm. I tried the commandline but it’s too annoying