That may be so but AFAIK vmware costs money(unless they made it free for personal use?) and most people on opensource forums aren’t wanting to spend money on proprietary software so that being the reason why I most of the time only recommend opensource software and software that I have used.
I didn’t know that, but I would still recommend something opensource over something like vmware any day for personal use. Thanks for sharing that link!
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Part of the reason I’m using Gnome Boxes. Plus it’s simple to use for my needs and I’ve never suffered any issues.
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Do you mean with that when you have the virt-manager window showing where the vm is displayed where you can see both the vm controls and the window where you see Windows running?
vmare workstation is free in the meantime. No cost. That makes it even more attractive for users who want to virtualize Windows.
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However, VMware needs kernel modules. It usually only supports LTS kernels. However, there are patches available on github for more recent kernels. But the patches don’t always keep up with Arch kernel upgrades.
I found two settings, one for virt-manager itself and one for the vm window settings. That seems to have done the job for me with Video Virtio QXL doesn’t seem to need it but it works for that as well.
When you have Virtual Machine Manager open, click Edit → Preferences → Console. Make sure you have “Graphical console scaling” set to on “Always” and “Resize gues with window” set to “On”. That did it for me.
The other in the vm settings, click on “View” → Scale to Display". Set that on “Always” as well.
Well, when running in Gnome boxes, Windows is saying 1920x1000 and it looks okay.
But in Virt-Manager, it would be a little different, because the top bar of Virt-Manager is a little thinner than the top bar of Gnome Boxes.
Until they change their mind and come with an update and give you a popup that you have to get a subscription. But I do have to agree vmware workstation is probably more user friendly than virt-manager.
This, plus QXL, did it for me.
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Eh, that’s relative. You’ll get better CPU performance on a KVM.
Your graphical performance will suffer, there is no easy way to run a Qemu VM with a 60fps display. The easiest way is VGA Passthrough + Looking Glass, which should tell you quite a lot about how not easy it is.
This problem has been around for years and it seems like none of libvirt nor qemu’s devs have even 0.1% motivation to fix it.
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