Hi,

I’m considering transitioning completely to Linux for my main workstation. However, due to the nature of my work I rely extensively on a few Autodesk products (namely AutoCAD, Revit) as well as Ms OneDrive to coordinate with clients. I did some research and these applications are not available natively and can’t run through Wine. So I was thinking setting up a virtual machine with a windows image in order to run these two programs. They don’t need extensive GPU. I was wondering if there are any obstacles / issues I should be aware if I chose to go this route? Thanks!

  • TheFonz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Fantastic. I have a second internal hdd can i designate that as a partition for this vm? Thanks!

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I think there are ways to do that but I didn’t research it.

      Here are my docs for whati did to get it working in arch.

      Install virt-manager on Arch

      install the required pkgs

      sudo pacman -Syu --needed virt-manager qemu-desktop libvirt edk2-ovmf dnsmasq vde2 bridge-utils iptables-nft dmidecode libguestfs

      update /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

      sudo sed -i 's|#unix_sock_group = "libvirt"|unix_sock_group = "libvirt"|' /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
sudo sed -i 's|#unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"|unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"|' /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

      sdd your user account to libvirt group

      sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)
newgrp libvirt

      start & enable libvirt daemon

      sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service
sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service

      run the following

      sudo virsh net-autostart default

      reboot

      run virtual machine manager (virt-manager)

      Windows 11

      sudo pacman -Syu swtpm edk2-ovmf

# Libtpms-based TPM emulator
tpm_path=~/Documents/windows11/
swtpm socket --tpm2 --tpmstate dir="${tpm_path}" --ctrl type=unixio,path="${tpm_path}/swtpm-sock" &
cp -f /usr/share/edk2/x64/OVMF_VARS.4m.fd ~/Documents/windows11/OVMF_VARS.4m.fd

      https://johnsiu.com/blog/win-kvm/