Virtualization?

[Trismegistus]

So one of your users virtualizes all his games using QEMU. I really wanna leave Windows behind and just play all my games on Linux, however the QEMU guide mainly uses CLI and I am not very familiar with CLI on linux. Can anyone help?

[psymin]

Check out virt-manager https://virt-manager.org/

[Dekonega]

Originally posted by Picatrix:

So one of your users virtualizes all his games using QEMU. I really wanna leave Windows behind and just play all my games on Linux, however the QEMU guide mainly uses CLI and I am not very familiar with CLI on linux. Can anyone help?

Probably the best GUI at the moment for QEMU and KVM is Gnome Boxes. Check it out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Boxes

[Trismegistus]

Originally posted by psymin:

Check out virt-manager https://virt-manager.org/

Originally posted by Dekonega:

Originally posted by Picatrix:

So one of your users virtualizes all his games using QEMU. I really wanna leave Windows behind and just play all my games on Linux, however the QEMU guide mainly uses CLI and I am not very familiar with CLI on linux. Can anyone help?

Probably the best GUI at the moment for QEMU and KVM is Gnome Boxes. Check it out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Boxes

Thanks to both of you. However, I am running KDE, not GNOME, so I don't know if I can use the latter suggestion, but I'll look into both.

[psymin]

Feel free to hop on IRC and chat about this if you'd like. Virtualization for games sounds pretty fun!

https://steamlug.org/irc

[Aoi Blue]

Currently you need a really recent video card or a second video card and a monitor switch for truly good virtualization. (There was a recently added extension that lets you create multiple virtual GPUs out of a single one. If not you can use QXL PCI-E driver to map the second card directly to your VM. These are the only two ways to get near zero loss in VM.)

Otherwise I recommend wine.

[psymin]

Aoi Blue, I assume you're talking about virgl3d? If you're talking about something else I'd love to know about it.

[Spíosra]

Consider if one requires virtualization in the first place.

I would generally recommend Wine over virtualization, especially if all one is doing is playing games. Depending on the specific games one plays, virtualization may well be a completely unnecessary step, and may even offer less performance.

[lewy🎮]

Hello I only play on steam, playonlinux and wine sometimes with problems, I think its better than virtualization on my low pc

[Aoi Blue]

If wine works, I recommend it over virtualization.

I only recommend virtualization when Wine doesn't work, and only if you have a setup that can support it with minimal performance impact. That basically means a dedicated second graphics card for the VM or a graphics card with the new VM extensions.