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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by blarg1 on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:12PM (#30217291)
Probably because people like me can't be bothered figuring out how to setup libvirt/Kvm/Qemu.
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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by petepete on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:57AM (#30218538)
If you use virt-manager (or Gnome Boxes) it doesn't really take any figuring out. You just need the relevant install media and follow the prompts.

https://virt-manager.org/

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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by dreinhardt on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:20AM (#30218972)
I went with Gnome boxes and installed windows xp. After 20 minutes of trying to get sound working I found out that the automatic configuration select ‘none’ for audio backend.

Worked fine after selecting ‘spice’, pulse audio didn’t work tho but also didn’t result in an error. Apart from sound everything worked out of the box, tho.

I did all that to run some old music training software that only came in 16 and 32 bit versions.

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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by fulafel on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:58AM (#30221018)
Can it set up GPU passthru?
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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by petepete on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:56PM (#30237920)
It appears to be possible but I've never done it.

https://wiki.debian.org/VGAPassthrough

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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by eurasiantiger on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:28AM (#30220383)
So is this the same virt-manager that passes clipboard and selection contents to all VMs without any option to turn it off?
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Re:Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if th... by blarg1 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:26AM (#30220367)
Cool I'll give it a try.
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