Quickemu Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• How to run macOS on Linux (without too much hassle) [video]

  Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu (I've been using it for annual chores on windows). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS

  Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomment-1152222880) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma

  Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes). Source: 12 months ago

• Wanting to ditch windows 10 in favor of linux

  In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI. Source: 12 months ago

• DistroSea- Test drive Linux distros online

  VM will be shutdown automatically when it's inactive for a while. I will eventually add more distros going forward. Most distro isos are downloaded using the quickget script from the wonderful quickemu project. You may directly contribute to the upstream project to get the distro added to DistroSea. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is it possible to run a Windows 11 Virtual Machine on Linux?

  If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is it possible to run a Windows 11 Virtual Machine on Linux?

  +1 for QuickEmu. I was able to try out Windows 11 in a VM on a PC that is not supported by Windows 11. Source: about 1 year ago

• Virter: a "Docker for VMs"

  Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu? Source: about 1 year ago

• Anyone Doing This With Gentoo?

  Absolutely. I run all kinds of things like that - k8s kubelet, docker, qemu, kvm. To manage them I tend to use Podman, virt-manager, and this less-well-known-but-still-useful script for qemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu for which someone wrote a front-end for: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui. Source: about 1 year ago

• Unfolder for Mac – a 3D modelcreating papercraft

  Quickemu on Linux can spin up a macOS VM. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

      $ quickget macos monterey.

  - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Safely running malicious 2000s games on linux

  I'd say, just do it in a virtual machine if you're unsure. You can setup one quickly with Boxes or quickemu (though virt-manager has more power, if you ever need to tinker with VM setups). Source: over 1 year ago

• QuickEMU for Linux Mint? How can I get this working?

  Directions are on the github page. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu. Source: over 1 year ago

• Linux Mint 21.1 has converted me, permanently.

  If you need a virtualized system, check quickemu out. Source: over 1 year ago

• VMware Fusion 13 Now Available with Native Support for Apple Silicon Macs

  RDP is really quite impressive. I host Windows VMs on a Linux server. With quickemu[0] you can fire up a Windows Vm in minutes. It fetches the ISO, sets everything up - even breezes through setup, creates a user, does KMS for activation, etc. One command and a few minutes later you're looking at a Windows desktop. Setup Remote Desktop (with SSH forwarding or VPN of course) and you have a remarkably responsive... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• VMware Workstation constant issues

  I've been using libvirt/kvm/qemu for the last decade because it is faster and because I don't have to deal with the mess around building kernel modules. Lately, I've been using Quickemu to manage my virtual machines (https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu). When you've got quickemu setup right, virtual machines are blazing fast, require zero root privileges and portable. Source: over 1 year ago

• Want to try to switch to linux again. Need some info.

  For VMs, you have several options. The generally accepted as "best" one is virt-manager -- I think this is a nice quick setup guide, and the Arch wiki should help with optimization and any other specific stuff you might want. Using the same underlying libraries, you also have quickemu and gnome-boxes. I have heard that VMware's proprietary graphics drivers are the best we have around, short of full GPU passthrough... Source: over 1 year ago

• Unicode vs mbcs filesystem encoding

  If the program does not demands many resources, you probably can run it on a VM using Gnome Boxes or something like quickemu. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you recommend me to switch from VirtualBox to virt-manager?

  Only really use it for distro-testing, so speed of set up and tear down is the most important factor. Thus, I usually use the wrapper script(s): https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you manage VMs on your workstations?

  Checking out the creator's videos of quickemu[0] now, seems close! [0]: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• I have installed vbox by oracle on Ubuntu and I'd like to try to virtualize Mac OS just for fun

  If you want to run MacOS on ubuntu, try Quickemu. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best VM for running macOS

  I have done it with QEMU/KVM with VMM to manage. For something easier to setup, I recently ran across this project which looks pretty interesting. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu. Source: almost 2 years ago