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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (44 children)

Who cares. Why use sub par Type 2 virtualization with DKMS modules when you can use built+in world class, industry standard, Type 1 hypervisor with Qemu+KVM and Virt-Manager? Already has clipboard sharing with qemu-guest-agent.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Virtualizing Windows 10 for various binbows-only work stuff

Virtualizing Windows XP to run Office from before it started sucking

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why would these not work in KVM exactly?

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 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

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

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

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