It really isn’t. That’s like saying “I keep a bottle of anthrax in my pocket just in case”. It just doesn’t you any good! (Yes, it’s a facetious example)
But seriously, if you need Windows for something every so often, just setup a VM. Safer, cleaner, can’t mess up your host.
It depends what you’re using it for. If it’s gaming, then it’s a no. But OP above didn’t say gaming. A Windows VM is fine for general tasks, but that naturally depends on the host system and how many resources you give the VM.
Edit: ok, so I just tried setting up a windows vm again, and it’s much faster now, animations are still a bit laggy, but changing some windows and libvirt settings improved performance by a lot. ig it was skill issue? even virtio didn’t have the resolution issue I had before, somehow
virtio NEVER lets me pick my native resolution either. This has been an issue on all my devices, and has persisted throughout all my PC upgrades.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it doesn’t help that the documentation is so non-existent for what to pick and the specifics for each xml options.
It really isn’t. That’s like saying “I keep a bottle of anthrax in my pocket just in case”. It just doesn’t you any good! (Yes, it’s a facetious example)
But seriously, if you need Windows for something every so often, just setup a VM. Safer, cleaner, can’t mess up your host.
Windows VMs don’t perform well, maybe virtio can fix their awful drivers, but until then that’s a waste of time.
Sorry for being crude, but I hate the linux culty gaslighting.
It depends what you’re using it for. If it’s gaming, then it’s a no. But OP above didn’t say gaming. A Windows VM is fine for general tasks, but that naturally depends on the host system and how many resources you give the VM.
The performance is horrible for me, even for simple things like word processing, the cursor lag and choppyness makes it extremely frustrating for me.
Ive tried virtio, qxl, vga, and rdp. Rdp is the only one that’s usable for me and it’s still awful.
The only time it hasn’t been bad for me is with GPU passthrough, but that’s a huge pain, and I’d rather dual boot instead.
That’s not normal. That suggests some issue in the virtualization config, or maybe your proc doesn’t support virtualization or something.
Aside from graphically heavy things, a VM should only incur a minor overhead compared to the host. Word processing should function just fine.
Edit: ok, so I just tried setting up a windows vm again, and it’s much faster now, animations are still a bit laggy, but changing some windows and libvirt settings improved performance by a lot. ig it was skill issue? even virtio didn’t have the resolution issue I had before, somehow
The libre office issue is literally a known bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152911 and https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-performance-issues-on-linux/114920 etc.
With the VM, I’ve tried on my laptop (framework 16), my 8600k desktop with rx 580, and gtx 1080
12700k with gtx 1080 and 6700 xt
9800x3d with rx 9070 xt.
Lots of others have the same issues, so please don’t gaslight me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/qemu_kvm/comments/11m9a4x/why_is_the_virtmanager_display_so_slow/
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/645
virtio NEVER lets me pick my native resolution either. This has been an issue on all my devices, and has persisted throughout all my PC upgrades.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it doesn’t help that the documentation is so non-existent for what to pick and the specifics for each xml options.
Btw I got the rdp tip from here, and rdp actually allows my native 4k resolution https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/1fcs0kj/virtmanager_better_fps/