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How to display 3D Wayland inside a virtual machine?

I'd like to try Wayfire—a 3D Wayland compositor—inside a virtual machine. What are the options and requirements to make a virtual machine that can display a Wayland compositor with 3D acceleration? ...
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Running Alpine Linux on QEMU ARM guests

I'm trying to build packages for Alpine Linux, which has official support for x86, x86_64, armhf, aarch64, s390x, ppc64le, so I want to build for all of these architectures. Currently I'm using QEMU'...
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4 votes
2 answers
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Unable to resume KVM guest after rebooting host

I'm running KVM on Linux Mint 17.1, kernel 3.16.0-31-generic. The only guest is a Windows 8.1 VM. I've noticed that if I reboot the host while the guest is running, I'm unable to resume the guest ...
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usb-host is not a valid device name - error when trying to pass USB to Qemu

I have tried to use various variations of adding a usb device to my Windows VM but to no avail. I have a Yocto project derived Wind River Linux, withQemu-kvm` installed. The guest OS is Windows 10. ...
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1 answer
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QEMU/KVM - Getting "Error connecting to graphical console: Error opening Spice console SpiceClientGtk missing" when trying to create a VM

I am trying to create a virtual machine using QEMU/KVM. I am getting an error: Error connecting to graphical console: Error opening Spice console SpiceClientGtk missing I have looked around but ...
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2 answers
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What emulator / VM software can I use to create a Win32-portable Linux Guest?

I want to create a portable VM setup so that I can boot a Linux install regardless of which Windows XP / Windows 7 host machine I am on. I was looking at Qemu but it doesn't appear to have a ...
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3 votes
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Virsh doesn't list virtual machines

On arch, I set up a number of VMs using virt-manager. My user is part of the libvirt group, and I can access virsh, but virsh list without root access doesn't list the VMs I created: $ virsh list --...
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Unable to do USB passthrough with QEMU

I have installed virt-mananager and QEMU sudo apt-get -y install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin bridge-utils virt-manager; I also installed sudo apt-get install libusb-dev sudo apt-get install ...
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Register super/win key press in qemu

I'm setting up a VM of my Linux setup using qemu by directly running the .img file through qemu-system-x86_64. I've got it working, however when I try to do a keybinding with the Super key in my VM, ...
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1 answer
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aarch64 VM; amd64 host; "invalid accelerator kvm"

I have an ARM64 machine, which I want to emulate as a VM on my desk for testing. This will be the first time I'm emulating ARM64 on an AMD64, I'm clueless, and I went fumbling for hints. I found one ...
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1 answer
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No internet connection when trying to install Arch linux in qemu

I'm trying to slowly switch from windows to linux. So I thought that it will be good idea to install arch on VM. Since I learned about VM's I was using VirtualBox but now I wanted to try qemu, because ...
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1 answer
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Can't ssh into arch linux live environment in qemu

I started arch linux in a qemu vm with guest port 22 connected to host port 60022, set the root password in the guest, and edited the sshd config in the guest to allow root logins and set the log ...
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How can I prevent certain keys (e.g. Super/Win) from being passed through to a qemu guest?

I am running a Windows 10 guest under Linux using qemu / virt-manager. All of my WM shortcuts in X use the super (windows) key. I don't really need that key for anything inside the Windows VM. Is ...
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How speedup qemu? My launch parameters very slow

Im try launch VM under windows 10 x64, qemu 4.0.92.0 on my rented VDS qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -accel tcg,thread=single -smp cpus=1,cores=2,threads=2 -boot order=d -drive file=C:\Users\admin\...
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linux 'top' not showing all processes

I am running linux top command to see processes running inside qemu VM. Sometimes, a process does not appear in them, but if I run, ps -eo psr,pcpu,comm | grep myprocessname then the process is ...
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