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VirtualBox 7.1 Released with Qt 6 GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Virtualizing Windows 10 for various binbows-only work stuff

Virtualizing Windows XP to run Office from before it started sucking

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why would these not work in KVM exactly?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok so I guess I am the stupid because I always assumed kernel-level virtualization meant that you were limited to guest OS’s that used the Linux kernel. I was drawing incorrect connections to Docker

TIL

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah virtualization and containers are very different things. That said virt-manager can be used with LXC as well :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For XP, the machine KVM presents as may be too new, but that isn't an issue with non-virtualized QEMU.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it should work with some version of the Q35 chipset, if not PC should work. But Wine might be a better option if you just want to run some old version of office (or frankly just use LibreOffice)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you paying for a Virtual box commercial license? They change for every employee in the company not just active users.

Just use KVM and be done with it. You can get the Windows guest drivers and addons from the Fedora project

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They only charge for the “extension pack” ( which is different from “guest additions”