• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    • QEMU 8.2 adds a new “virtio-sound” device that implements capture and playback from inside a guest using the configured audio backend of the host machine.

    • A new VirtIO-GPU “Rutabaga” device that allows various abstractions of GPU and display virtualization.

    This VirtIO-GPU Rutabaga comes from the Android/CrosVM graphics stack and is intended for use with the Android Emulator on QEMU.

    QEMU documentation describes this as “virtio-balloon on steroids for Windows guests.”

    • QEMU’s 68k Macintosh Quadra 800 emulation can now boot MacOS 7.1, A/UX 3.0.1, Linux, and NetBSD 9.3.

    Plus support for 4K page sizes and other ongoing LoongArch enablement work.


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    10 months ago

    Hopefully some of this comes to Windows guests. One of the major issues right now is that Windows virtualisation isn’t great. VirtualBox has GPU problems, VMware requires a lot of messing about with kernel modules if you don’t use Ubuntu, if KVM/QEMU is able to make a smooth environment for Windows guests that’d help bring people in who still need Windows for the odd bit of software or two.

    I remember there was a GPU driver for Windows but that seems to have stalled?

    Edit: Cleared up why I think VMware is a bit of a mess.

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      10 months ago

      virtio-sound likely will eventually and ufs probably will too. the gpu driver is being worked on by a third party, but it’s still using virgl so I doubt it will be very preformant

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      10 months ago

      Vmware requires a lot of messing around.

      What are you going on about? VMware and Windows work just fine if you install vmware tools.

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        10 months ago

        I’m talking about the installation process for VMware itself.

        I had to help someone non-techy install VMware on Pop!_OS (the OS preinstalled by System76 on their hardware), and it required messing with the kernel modules which fails on Pop!_OS. It seems like VMware builds for a very specific version of Ubuntu which of course, means the kernel module building process fails when you use a kernel version that’s different to what Ubuntu has (which Pop!_OS does and maybe some other Ubuntu-based distros). Thankfully someone on GitHub maintains up-to-date patches for the VMware modules so I was able to guide him through there but this isn’t something someone new to Linux would want to do.

        It’s not like simply installing it from a package manager, well unless you use Arch but I’m not putting this person who’s new to Linux on Arch when he just started using CLI.