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Comment by VMtest

1 day ago

There is still no proper documentation for using qemu on windows host, the options and arguments etc. We have to google and the info and ideas that are scattered across the internet, or referencing the Linux equivalents of it to come up with a solution

to be fair most folks playing around with qemu are probably running unix. windows has plenty of user friendly virtualization options (virtualbox, vmware, hyper-v), not to mention WSL. so windows users would probably only run qemu in hyperspecific cases like this

  • nope, not fair, virtualbox for example doesn't use whpx on windows while it has kvm backend on linux now

    vmware is bloated, I prefer not to register an account to download it as well. hyper-v uses FreeRDP and that requires the guest distribution to support it AFAIK, so it's not a easy out-of-the-box solution

    and I do use qemu on linux, just at the surface level, with libvirt with virt-manager, it's easy to configure with the UI