You need to install docker and docker compose
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This looks like a simple docker compose setup
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version: “3”
services:
windows:
image: dockurr/windows
container_name: windows
devices:
- /dev/kvm
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
ports:
- 8006:8006
- 3389:3389/tcp
- 3389:3389/udp
stop_grace_period: 2m
restart: on-failure
environment:
VERSION: “win11”
RAM_SIZE: “4G”
CPU_CORES: “4”
DISK_SIZE: “64G”
volumes:
- /var/win:/storage
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Thanks for giving it a trial .
I cant really test properly because I am not competant with Win.
I agree with what you say, it works, but no better than a VM. A good machine like yours would run 3 or 4 VM’s or containers simultaneously without any performance drop.
I think containers come into their own when want to run dozens of them. There are tools to manage collections of containers.
The one thing I can see where it might help to use a container in a home system is where you have some app that will only run with different versions of some libraries to what you have in your home system. You can make an app immune to system updates by containerizing it.
I was interested that you use virt-manager… So many people jump into Vbox without looking at the alternatives.
I find virt-manager much easier to setup.
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That link to the docker documentation recommends installing it outside the Debian package system.
I find it safer and more manageable to used the Debian packages wherever possible.
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I did not set that. I assume I got some default.
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So do I.
Found Vbox too much trouble to setup and I couldn’t get it to go full screen.
Virt-manager is a breeze compared.
Gnome boxes is even easier but only 1 VM at a time can be run.
Don’t use VM’s enough to have more than 1 running anyway.
Tried vmware a long while ago and got nowhere with that.
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It’s a simple plural–no apostrophe.
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Boxes is good. Only need one VM at a time.
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I just found the “kvm-ok” command - by installing cpu-checker (from Pop! repos : Index of /ubuntu/)…
Thanks to : https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-kvm-ok-command-on-debian-ubuntu-linux/
╭─x@titan ~/ResilioSync/Music/YOUNG-Neil
╰─➤ sudo kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used
But I reckon it will barf as I have “virtualbox.service” systemd running :
╭─x@titan ~/ResilioSync/Music/YOUNG-Neil
╰─➤ systemctl status virtualbox.service
● virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2024-11-05 17:36:42 AWST; 1 week 5 days ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
CPU: 50ms
Nov 05 17:36:42 titan systemd[1]: Starting LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module...
Nov 05 17:36:42 titan virtualbox[1910]: * Loading VirtualBox kernel modules...
Nov 05 17:36:42 titan virtualbox[1910]: ...done.
Nov 05 17:36:42 titan systemd[1]: Started LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module.
And when I tried to run that docker command for the Windows11 container - it complained about no kvm… So I suspect virtualbox is masking it…
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Strange.
I guess the kernel can only support one hypervisor at a time?
What are you going to do? Stop the virtualbox.service temporarily?
BTW You need to be in the docker group
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It is. I can cope with either virt-manager or Boxes.
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Thanks for correcting my grammar, its one of the things I often get wrong
Lawyers
Lawyer’s
Lawyers’
sorry, thats a group of lawyers so its is a meeting, they can send you the bill …
ha ha ha my jokes don’t get any better.
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I checked whether one could use distrobox rather than docker to create dockur/windows containers.
The answer is no… because distrobox depends on the presence of a pre-built container image…,dockur does not have prebuilt images , it has procedures to download and build them on the fly.
One could use docker to build a dockur image locally, and then run it with distrobox, but there is no point… one may as well run it with docker compose.
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It would seem you are right about that
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=104159
but
" as long as you are not using Bare-Metal hypervisors you can run many side-by-side."
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I have found this site on how to make LibreOffice compatible with MS-Office: Make LibreOffice compatible with MS Office - LinuxForDevices. I have not done it as I am still in the process of choosing the right OS but as you all are much more experienced than me, if someone of you can experiment with these, if not done already, then it will be very helpful to people like me, I think.
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I currently use a macbook pro, but with linux as the mac os expired and not possible to upgrade. In my workshop I have 2 of the original powerbook portable macs, 2 years ago I donated a se30, lc 475, and a mac power pc to a museum for restoration projects, suspect the powerbooks will go the same y.
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Which linux did you go for ?
Mine only runs 32 bit so I am on mint 19.3 mate
Not a problem as it does everything I want
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Paul wrote:
I currently use a macbook pro, but with linux as the mac os expired and not possible to upgrade. In my workshop I have 2 of the original powerbook portable macs, 2 years ago I donated a se30, lc 475, and a mac power pc to a museum for restoration projects, suspect the powerbooks will go the same
Yes ,I also have a MacBook Pro from 2011 . Following fitting an SSD It now runs Zorin 17.2 and does that very well. Old equipment is still excellent for running the latest Linux distros .
Last month I was donated an AD2010 Asus F3E laptop ; I added 2GB RAM and replaced the HDD by a SSD ; the machine now runs LM 22 -XFCE ; only the webcam is not accepted (perhaps defective)
The problem with TPM-0 disappeared after fitting the SSD ,so it had something to do with the original HDD…to me still a mystery.
Frank in County Wicklow-Ireland
Did not know where that was on mother board or disk, and only thought it touched windows not mac