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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by gnif on Sunday July 18, 2021 @02:35AM (#27871135) 

    1. We are working on it
    2. Not if it's a vGPU or a Quadro where EDID spoofing is allowed
    3. No, we capture everything now, even the windows Login screen and windows updates, etc.
    4. Yes
    5. Very yes!
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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by Nullabillity on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:03AM (#27871221)
> 3. No, we capture everything now, even the windows Login screen and windows updates, etc.

B3 and B4 both have pretty huge improvements here, but there are still a few rough corners. For example, when logging out the host shuts down immediately upon request, so you can't see the "program X is blocking shutdown" dialog.

But ultimately this is a very minor papercut for a very impressive and useful project.

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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by gnif on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:11AM (#27871254)
Really? I see this all the time with my VM when I shutdown via LG.
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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by Nullabillity on Sunday July 18, 2021 @11:46AM (#27873884)
Huh, so this is a bit more involved than I thought. I just tried again to confirm (still on B4).

The first time I tried I just got the Looking Glass splash as soon as I clicked shut down. When I cancelled that and tried again I was able to see both the throbber and the prompt. When I let the VM sit idle for a while before trying again, the LG splash was back. Rebooting the VM also seems to bring back the splash reliably.

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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by carlhjerpe on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:39AM (#27871723)
Create a desktop shortcut to "shutdown -s -t 1" it'll keep shutting down even if an application might try to keep the system running.
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