I’m thinking of setting up a laptop with AlmaX (currently running 9 on my server) and want Windoz 11 emulation. My wife is trying to dump her Win machine and would like to have Alma but with the ability to open a window on the desktop running Win11 and related apps.
Looking at QEMU but did not see anything when I did search with dnf. Is there a way to get what I’m looking for of a laptop running AlmaX with QEMU with a Win11 target? Alternatives to QEMU? etc
I’m not a guru and if I posted this to the wrong forum please advise. Or if I have just overlooked the answer somewhere in my search please point to that.
Either of those will help you get the basics up and running.
You probably don’t need to bother with “Step 3 - Network Bridge”. Using the default NAT network will still let the Windows machine access the Internet via the host. The Bridge is only needed of you need incoming connections to the VM, however if that is required, the nmcli commands from the appropriate section of the second link will be more useful – Although my hot tip for a quick and easy method of getting Bridging working properly is to use the Cockpit web-ui for that task.
You might also like the additional details provided by the official Red Hat documentation helpful at:
for a deeper dive.
If you must run Windows, I prefer the LTSC versions for less bloat but that will depend on your (Wifes) preferences and use case.
I hope those links help, but do come back if you have more specific questions. Good luck.
Thanks for the link and suggestion, Bedna. I’ll dig into that as well. I can see that there are lots of ‘exercises for the student’ that I need to read up on. Thanks to all.