Comment on [Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?
s3rvant@lemmy.ml 2 months agoYep, initially tried to setup virtual box as I’m more familiar there but could not for the life of me get around install errors. After setting the OS to read-write installing virt manager was pretty straight forward; the only real hiccup I had was that I needed to install win-fsp on the guest os before installing guest additions like virtio-fs which allowed me to add the shared folder between host/guest.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ah gotcha, didn’t realize virt manager was the name of the VM tool. I’ll have to give it a shot sometime, seems cool!
s3rvant@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yep iirc virt manager is just a gui front end for qemu though imo certainly makes it easier to manage the vm’s
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sick!
I dug into this a bit and couldn’t find and easily locatable guides to setting this up on Deck (at least, not without disabling the read-only protections of the system), and I ended up finding Boxes, made by Gnome! It didn’t seem to want to download Debian on its own, but I just downloaded it from Debian.org and it was installed in like 10 minutes! Couldn’t believe how easy it was - and all with a single flatpak app! 😃