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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by exceptione on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:43AM (#46475094)
Yes, doing that by hand would be three lines of bash to launch it.

  virsh start ms-malware11 # or any other method to launch your vm
  sleep 20
  remmina -c /home/me/ms-malware11.remmina
Make a shortcut to above script and the only thing the user needs to do is click it .

It requires a bit of setup on Linux. First install a win11 vm, you can do it graphically via `virtual machine manager` from libvirt. Then install remmina and configure a profile `ms-malware11.remmina`, also graphically. In that profile, under Advanced, have Startup Program "AutoDesk.exe" or whatever that is called.

Then Autodesk runs like any linux application, the user doesn't see it runs in a vm. This feature depends on RemoteApp feature in Windows.

This is something your mom probably wouldn't setup by hand, but anybody here should be able to.

Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by ykonstant on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:10AM (#46477542)
Ooh remmina looks really cool.

>ms-malware11

lol

Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by Spivak on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:26PM (#46479206)
libvirtd really is such a quality piece of software making local VMs so trivial to spin up and manage.

Hyper-V and Virtualization Framework wish they were so user friendly.