Quick Tip for Distrohoppers

Hey distro hoppers, this is for you :smiley:

With quickemu, VMs can be created quickly and easily, just like with Docker.

quickget xubuntu 24.10

quickemu --vm xubuntu-24.10.conf

There is a matching management GUI, quickgui, for example.

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Thanks for sharing this! I hadn’t looked into Quickemu before, but this looks like a solid way to spin up VMs quickly. Appreciate the tip!

Definitely something worth trying. Have you been using it for a while, or just started experimenting with it?

For a week now, everything has worked very well except for a VM with MacOS. Ubuntu derviate, Arch, Solus and Windows 11, no problems.

Running VM looks like this:

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Windows 11?? Really?? I will also look this up.

I now see that How-To-Geek has a nice write up on this software.

https://www.howtogeek.com/get-windows-on-linux-in-10-minutes-with-quickemu/

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What is special about quickemu is that you can install a VM with MacOS: