| 19 Oct 2024 |
 K900 | In reply to@mwoodpatrickmx:matrix.org
And you have Hyper-V right there
Can you elaborate
Like, WSL is just a Hyper-V VM | 13:23:21 |
| K900 | You can enable Hyper-V proper | 13:23:25 |
 nzbr (they/it) | Hyper-V itself isn't that great of a experience if you want to do anything with a GUI IMHO. But VMware workstation is free for personal use now and works pretty great even with Hyper-V enabled if you don't mind using a proprietary solution | 13:23:25 |
| K900 | And run WSL and "big" Hyper-V VMs | 13:23:32 |
 mwoodpatrickmx | I would prefer to use an Open source solution | 13:25:17 |
| K900 | You're on Windows | 13:26:04 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | I'm running on my Windows 11 laptop (64GB) | 13:26:15 |
| K900 | Your "open source solution" is just Hyper-V through an abstraction layer | 13:26:19 |
| K900 | So skip the abstraction layer and just run Hyper-V | 13:26:28 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | Any pointers to docs on doing this would be most appreciated | 13:27:33 |
| K900 | Doing what exactly? | 13:27:57 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | Enabling Hyper-V, best abstraction layers on top of KVM. | 13:30:21 |
| K900 | There are no abstraction layers on top of KVM | 13:31:45 |
| K900 | Your KVM is an abstraction on top of Hyper-V | 13:31:52 |
| K900 | Because WSL is a Hyper-V VM | 13:31:56 |
| K900 | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/ | 13:32:10 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | Many thanks for the pointer, its been a while since I read that article. Any pointers to docs on running NixOS under Hyper-V? | 13:53:06 |
| K900 | I'm confused by what you're trying to do | 13:53:32 |
| K900 | WSL still works with Hyper-V | 13:53:38 |
| K900 | You probably want to run NixOS on WSL | 13:53:48 |
| K900 | And then run your other VMs, whatever those are, on "pure" Hyper-V | 13:54:00 |
| K900 | Instead of nesting them inside NixOS | 13:54:05 |
| K900 | * Instead of nesting them inside NixOS on WSL | 13:54:08 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | Getting experience using libvirt & virt-manager | 13:54:51 |
| K900 | If you specifically want experience using libvirt, Hyper-V won't help you | 13:55:25 |
| K900 | Because you'll be nesting VMs anyway | 13:55:31 |
| K900 | The thing to avoid here is nesting VMs in general, not specifically nesting VMs inside WSL | 13:55:43 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | Many thanks for the clarification | 13:57:08 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | Has anyone got a shared clipboard working between nixos host and vm guest? I did see the below issue but there was no resolution.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-can-i-get-a-shared-clipboard-for-nixos-virtual-machine-with-gnome/42615/5 | 14:27:50 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | * Has anyone got a shared clipboard working between nixos host and vm guest? I did see the below issue but there was no resolution.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-can-i-get-a-shared-clipboard-for-nixos-virtual-machine-with-gnome/42615/5
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-as-a-guest-os-in-qemu-kvm-how-to-share-clipboard-displaying-scaling-etc/8124/10 | 15:10:13 |
