Hi Folks,
Would someone point me towards a “suitable” virtual machine solution? While it is very easy to find a lot of information about VMs, that in itself is a problem because I find it hard to know where to start.
I want to explore setting up Microsoft Office 365 (or whatever they are calling it now) so that I can use it from within TW without rebooting to Windoze.
By suitable, I mean easy to implement for a novice, stable with a straightforward howto for installation/maintenance (preferably from a TW repo via zypper dup.)
Thanks for any guidance you can offer.
Cheers,
Brad
The most noob friendly VM solution is, and always has been Virtualbox. It’s available in the main TW repos. However it’s not the most performant solution, and generally not recommended by most here, as there is already a built in solution with KVM/Qemu.
I’m not particularly a fan of Virtmanager, as it is not the most clear or novice friendly. If you want to go down the Qemu route, I highly suggest looking in to Quickemu:
It’s available on the OBS and the install is uncomplicated.
There is also a separated gui for it with Quickgui:
If you’re going to install Windows 11, there will be some light tinkering to get it to install properly.
Ignoring the ^^ post, since it is not based on openSUSE packages. I dropped Vbox in favor of KVM/QEMU and virt-manager. What a relief. Install, add user to libvirt group, start the service and off you go. No recompile, no kmp, all in the kernel.
Actually…
droid@TheNexus:~> zypper info quickemu
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package quickemu:
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Repository : Packages used on my private machines - Use at your own risk! :-) (openSUSE_Tumbleweed)
Name : quickemu
Version : 4.x+git.20251228T125625~7ea4e95-52.1
Arch : noarch
Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/home:Herbster0815
Installed Size : 262.2 KiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : quickemu-4.x+git.20251228T125625~7ea4e95-52.1.src
Upstream URL : https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
Summary : Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop VMs
Description :
Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux,
macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system
you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.
Unless you meant, not packaged ‘by’ OpenSUSE. As stated above, it is packaged in the OBS.
However, you’re correct about quickgui, it is not.
Do not use home: repos. Or devel; FWIW.
Is the following the goto guide for setting things up:
Cheers.
The virt-manager flatpak, with the QEMU userspace extension is another option, and very easy to use.
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Thanks for your suggestions folks. I’ll give the QEMU-KVM & virt-manager approach a try.
Cheers.