▲ 63 ▼ WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration" (www.gamingonlinux.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev 14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children) How about just using virtualbox.. Or maybe wine and stuff permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] F04118F@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (4 children) Virtualbox is VMs. This is containers. Containers are better, especially for a desktop: they are smaller, faster in every sense, and don't permanently hog a fixed part of the resources, instead scaling dynamically, just like any other process on the host. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago A VM in a container actually permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) Nowadays you can also assign a dynamic amount of memory. I've only ever used this with Linux VMs on Proxmox though, but I'm pretty sure it works with Windows as well permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor. See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory permalink fedilink source parent
[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (4 children) Virtualbox is VMs. This is containers. Containers are better, especially for a desktop: they are smaller, faster in every sense, and don't permanently hog a fixed part of the resources, instead scaling dynamically, just like any other process on the host. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago A VM in a container actually permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) Nowadays you can also assign a dynamic amount of memory. I've only ever used this with Linux VMs on Proxmox though, but I'm pretty sure it works with Windows as well permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor. See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago A VM in a container actually permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) Nowadays you can also assign a dynamic amount of memory. I've only ever used this with Linux VMs on Proxmox though, but I'm pretty sure it works with Windows as well permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor. See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor. See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor. See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory permalink fedilink source parent