WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"
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Docker AND KVM
Wtf
Containerise your Virtual Machines!
Or... Virtual Machinerise your Containers?
Yeah, if I wanted a VM, I'd be running a VM...
If this is just winapps with a different coat of paint then it’s still not gonna work for me. I haven’t managed to get several apps requiring a gpu running through WinApps properly.
And posting about them in the forums and discord has gotten me no help.
So I assume solidworks ain't gonna work on this.
If anyone gets updates on Solidworks on Linux, get back to us. One of my managers is so upset about having to use Windows.
Has anyone tried this on bazzite? Mind sharing if it works? Are there any steps necessary to make it work?
It requires rootful Docker, KVM, and AppImage (FUSE2). As long as those requirements are met, it should work. Should be as simple as using
ujustorrpm-ostreeto install the necessary packages.Looks like Parallels for MacOS? I'll have to give it a go.
I guess this looks like WSL on Windows, except the other way around?
How about just using virtualbox.. Or maybe wine and stuff
Virtualbox is VMs. This is containers.
Containers are better, especially for a desktop: they are smaller, faster in every sense, and don't permanently hog a fixed part of the resources, instead scaling dynamically, just like any other process on the host.
A VM in a container actually
What will they thing of next? A container in a VM?
Actually that is how ChromeOS does the Linux environment. They run a container image in a small performant VM and passthrough the windows with some fancy Wayland tool.
Nowadays you can also assign a dynamic amount of memory. I've only ever used this with Linux VMs on Proxmox though, but I'm pretty sure it works with Windows as well
You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines
No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor.
See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory