• Bobby Turkalino
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    57 days ago

    Virtualizing Windows 10 for various binbows-only work stuff

    Virtualizing Windows XP to run Office from before it started sucking

    • @wildbus8979
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      97 days ago

      Why would these not work in KVM exactly?

      • Bobby Turkalino
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        57 days ago

        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

        • @wildbus8979
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          47 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        17 days ago

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

        • @wildbus8979
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          7 days 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)

    • Possibly linux
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      37 days ago

      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