Run existing windows install as a flatpaked VM
as the title says I want to run my windows install I have on a seperate nvme disk in a vm.
I will be using this just to run the odd windows app that does not play nicley in WINE. I do not need GPU passtrough or anything like that (I really don't even care about passing the disk natively as a pcie device for better performance)
ujust setup-virtualization uses virt-manager correct? this is kinda overkill for my use case.
would it be possible to achive what I want with the simple flatpaked gnome boxes?Solution:Jump to solution
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You cannot use the Flatpak/Flathub version as it doesn’t currently support emulating a TPM. so your limted to windows 10 it seems with boxes also suposidly usb pass trough doesn't work because flatpak38 Replies
gnome boxes dont think so, dont use it myself but gnome boxes is designed to be a more simplistic "i just want a VM, BOOM!" kinda gui so the configuration will be extremely limited.
This is why we default to virt-manager since it lets you configure like 90% of what you need (the remaining 10% being exotic things or experimental stuff which requires modifying the xml file and the majority of people will not need that)
yeah looking into boxes it seems it does have usb passthrough but thats it. I don't see any option to even inport a virtual machine image or anything much less specify a disk
in virt manager you can set the disk to raw and point to the whole disk (not partition), let me grab a screenshot example
the next setup up would be orcale virtualbox but that would have to be overlayed as well i think so at that point im better off with virt manager
type="raw"
use SATA as the bus type since its an existing install
yeah back when i was using garuda I had it setup with virtmanger. I just wanted to avoid overlaying more stuff and the worning about updates being slower concerns me as updates are already pretty slow
also windows will be angry at you for booting it in a VM
wdym?
hardware change, windows doesnt like drastic hardware change and can invalidate your license
never really had that prob. worse thats happend is sometimes I broke the boot loader
i might just convert my windows install to a fully virtual machine image instead of being a disk i can also dualboot.
I had it like that so when I want to play a windows game I would just dualboot into windows but I almost never do that
tried single GPU passtrough once and it wasn't a great experince
was the gpu passthrough with 1 gpu on the system only?
yeah don't have a second GPU
yeah that experience will be shit
its why we have the hard requirement of 2 gpus for the vfio stuff
if you got only 1 or a laptop youre on your own