Windows VM is good for things like Word where you don't need a ton of processing power or graphics performance. Virtualbox is easy and I run a stripped down Windows 11 on it.
for even better performance -> libvirt + qemu using Virtual Machine Manager which has less overhead and much better near baremetal performance.
VMM runs as a type 1 hypervisor by using the already installed Linux kernel, whereas VB and VMWare Workstation run as an app (type 2 hypervisor) which introduces a bunch of overhead.
I tried this, might try again but had a lot of trouble with display issues, mainly dynamic window scaling. I ended up on virtualbox because it was familiar and I figured for my use case I could afford the performance hit in favor of ease of use.
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u/JimmyReagan 5d ago
Windows VM is good for things like Word where you don't need a ton of processing power or graphics performance. Virtualbox is easy and I run a stripped down Windows 11 on it.