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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by ghostly_s on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:45AM (#27871383)
The host is headless? So you're streaming the display via VNC or something to another system, or do you mean the host has a head but it's just being passed thru directly to the guest?
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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by Cyph0n on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:57AM (#27871622)
Headless host means you can only access the host system via SSH or web interface (e.g., if you’re running Proxmox). The guest VM “owns” the single GPU.
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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by gnif on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:48AM (#27871398)
The GPU is given to the guest, so the guest is driving the GPU directly making it a headless host.
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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by coldtea on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:06PM (#27899333)
Does this also work for audio?

E.g. could you run a high end DAW on the guest with the same performance?

If not, is it something that might be added later?

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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by zaptheimpaler on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:05AM (#27871468)
The host PC has 1 graphics card, the host OS is running headless, and the windows OS is using the graphics card.
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Re:Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with... by Aeolun on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:56AM (#27872001)
Does it boot the windows UI by default then? Or you just boot into a plain shell?

Kind of defeats the point if your UI becomes windows again in my opinion.

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