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Access win10 host desktop from linux guest vm?

I have the specific use case, that I want to run stuff mainly from inside the guest VM (pop os 22.04 currently, but I'm open to switching distro if the use case is easier elsewhere), without tabbing ...
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Running 16Bit Application on Windows 10x64 without VT-x [duplicate]

I have a legacy application (exe header = "MZ") which I usually run through VMWare workstation or the 32-Bit version of Windows. Now I got at a computer having a Core 2 Duo processor not ...
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How and why does DOSBox work the way it does? [closed]

As a complete novice when it comes to the topic of emulation or virtual machines, I was presented with the following two questions that I need to answer: Briefly explain how software (in this example ...
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Setting hypervisorlaunchtype Off causes emulation error

just a bit of background about what I'm trying to accomplish. So I have a personal computer at home running on AMD 3600x (16GB ram). I migrated a virtual machine into my pc so that I can do my mobile ...
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Emulating a low-end server

I'm trying to figure out the cheapest possible hardware required for my servers. The software is written in c++ and is highly efficient, the most computationally intensive thing it has to do is ...
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How to have graphics enabled in multiple VMs without dedicated pass-through (GPU emulation?)

Is there a way to emulate GPUs in a VM without doing an actual GPU-passthrough? Now now, before y'all close this question saying "GPU emulation is not possible, it won't increase performance", let me ...
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requesting app secure boot virtualbox

I am wondering if there are any secure programs I could use like virtual machine that can run on boot so I dont have to have a whole os running in the back ground but I am interested in trying ...
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How does virtualizing differ from emulation, in terms of structure?

Someone told me that a virtualizing program like VirtualBox does not work like an emulator does in the sense that it doesn't emulate registers and uses the actual ones for the virtualized data that ...
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What's the best way of running a Linux distro transparently on top of Windows?

I'm having an issue I'm sure lots of people have. I LOVE Unix and I'm indifferent about Windows. I would love to be on Unix all the time, but as an avid gamer I find myself forced to use Windows. But ...
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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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16-bit DOS on Windows Vista+

I have a friend that uses some really old business software and for whatever reason doesn't want to check out a new version (if one even exists, he's in a niche market). The software ran as a 16-bit ...
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Runnig a Windows 7 in a virtual machine (linux host) from a partition

At the moment I'm dual booting openSUSE 11.2 64bit and Windows 7 64bit. I'd like to run some windows applications from Linux without rebooting into windows or using Wine (which doesn't work on ...
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