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There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT? (startrek.website)
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Half of these exist because I was bored once.

The Windows 10 and MacOS ones are GPU passthrough enabled and what I occasionally use if I have to use a Windows or Mac application. Windows 7 is also GPU enabled, but is more a nostalgia thing than anything.

I think my PopOS VM was originally installed for fun, but I used it along with my Arch Linux, Debian 12 and Testing (I run Testing on host, but I wanted a fresh environment and was too lazy to spin up a Docker or chroot), Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora to test various software builds and bugs, as I don't like touching normal Ubuntu unless I must.

The Windows Server 2022 one is one I recently spun up to mess with Windows Docker Containers (I have to port an app to Windows, and was looking at that for CI). That all become moot when I found out Github's CI doesn't support Windows Docker containers despite supporting Windows runners (The organization I'm doing it for uses Github, so I have to use it).

A list of VMs in Virt Manager: archlinux-2, debian10, debian12, debiantesting, fedora39, freebsd14.0, gentoo, Mac OS, openindiana, opensuse15.5, popos22.04, ReactOS, ubuntu23.10, win8.1, Windows10, Windows11, Windows11LTSC (Which is running), Windows7, windows_2000, Windows_Neptune_Build_5111, Windows_Server_2022, and winvista.
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I use Debian. Like I said, video is only sometimes choppy. I usually have a few vlc windows open at one time. Something I've learned is that it will use a lot of CPU even if the video is paused. To stop it, I have to manually set the video source to "none" when I pause a video and leave it in the BG.

Or just pause the whole VM. Another great Qubes feature

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Something I've learned is that it will use a lot of CPU even if the video is paused.

    this has been my experience with it on windows too, so it must be a core VLC thing. if it bothers you, I recommend you to try out MPV. been using it for more than a year, would never go back. If you need more than the on screen controller and key combos, there are quite a few proper GUI players being built on MPV.

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