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| 19 Oct 2024 |
 mwoodpatrickmx | I'm running NixOS on WSL and experimenting running VM's under my NixOS. I have virt-manager installed and am able to create some basic VM's running. I would appreciate any pointers to docs or info on best practices when running virt-manager & libvirtd on NixOS under WSL-2. Especially any issues related to doing this under WSL-2. | 13:14:28 |
 K900 | Don't, generally | 13:17:56 |
| K900 | Nested virt is pretty slow even on a good day | 13:18:03 |
| K900 | And you have Hyper-V right there | 13:18:07 |
| mwoodpatrickmx |
And you have Hyper-V right there
Can you elaborate
| 13:21:51 |
 nzbr (they/it) | From my experience: It does work (used it to run https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM) but it frequently crashed Hyper-V for me. At least that's what I assume happened - The screen just went black and it rebooted, not even a BSOD
That was on an insider build through, so it might be less crash-prone now | 13:21:59 |
| 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 |
