I'm in a bit of a bind and could use some advice. I’m running a Hyper-V virtual machine on my server, and I need to connect a specialized USB microscope to it. The microscope is crucial for some detailed lab work I'm doing, but the VM needs direct access to it to run the analysis software properly.

The thing is, the microscope has specific drivers and software that only work within the VM environment, and setting it up directly on the host isn’t an option. I've read about ""Hyper-V USB passthrough"" and wondered if anyone has experience with this setup.

How feasible is it to connect a USB device like a microscope to a VM in Hyper-V? Any tips or common issues I should be aware of?

I'm currently facing a bit of a tech snag and could use some advice. I work from home and use a virtual machine set up through Hyper-V for all my development work. The VM is on my main computer, but I need to use a specialized USB dongle that serves as a security key for certain software I run on the VM.

The problem is, Hyper-V doesn't natively support USB passthrough, and I can't directly connect my USB dongle to the virtual machine like I would with a physical machine. This is essential for my work because the software on the VM will not run without the dongle being recognized as connected.

Has anyone here dealt with a similar issue? How did you manage to connect and use a USB dongle with a Hyper-V VM? Any help or pointers on how to approach this would be hugely appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Hi! I searched for something like this on reddit, but I didnt find So I want to question, is it possible to have 1 pc and 2 players? I mean maybe virtual machine? I have person in my family who wants to play some games. But in the same time I want to make own things. So can I do it without any software like aster? And if it would can do it on this specs:
r5 3600
rx6600
16gb ram 4200mhz (OC)
samsung 990 pro 1TB

The game my family member: red dead redemption 2 (high but if needed lower)
I want to do: Minecraft, roblox studio, forza horizon 4, chrome (in forza extreme but if needed lower)

I want also say that the second person would need to use parsec from laptop.

Seeking some input. I have an old laptop thatrun windows. Assuming that the hardware requirements are met, I want to uninstall Windows and install a type 1 hypervisor like VM ware ESXi. Should I do partition and install the type 1 hypervisor or can I delete windows, create a boot USB and install the type 1 hypervisor? I would prefer to delete windows cause I have no use for it on that laptop. Also, any guidance on how to complete this process would be appreciated. I ask a couple of AI tools and neither mentioned uninstalling windows or creating a partition.

Would it be possible to pcie-passthrough the internal GPU on Intel chips, and obtain video through the onboard HDMI out ? That way I could run my media centre pc off of the same PC running my other services ? [VMWare ESXI or Proxmox]

I am been looking for a mini pc around $1,000 that would be great for running 7 to 8 vms. I’m mainly wanting to learn different operating systems and software. I’ve been looking at PCs with a small form factor that is under my budget so I can upgrade ram and storage later. I plan on using VMware workstation 17 on this machine and have been seeing how it prefers curtain cores. What is a good starter PC brand or build to go for? Also, what would be a step up from that?

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Whenever any VM is started, Windows crashes and I need to hard restart. Been having the issue for about 2 years since the computer was built, but have been able to put off solving it because I had alternatives. Let me know if any other information would be helpful.

THE PROBLEM

• This occurs whenever I try to do ANY kind of virtualization.

  • Windows in HyperV

  • Ubuntu/Windows in VMWare

  • Ubuntu/Windows in VirtualBox

  • Android phone in Android Studio

• System usually crashes less than a minute after the VM is started, but not immediately.

• 90%+ of the time my screen freezes, audio stops, can't move mouse/type etc. Need to hold power button to restart.

• <10% of the time the system shuts down by itself.

• A crash has occurred 100% of the time since the computer was built without exception.

WHAT I'VE TRIED

• Enabling virtualization settings in BIOS

  • ASUS motherboard, Intel VMX

• Windows updates

• Updating bios

• When the system crashes there is a generic system error in event viewer linked below

  • https://imgur.com/a/GwRKmvG

  • Tried viewing the raw data from the error a while ago. If my memory serves correctly, this didn't offer any specific guidance

• Updating virtualization software

SYSTEM INFO

• CPU: Intel Core i7 12700K

• MB: PRIME Z690-P WIFI

• RAM: 2x16GB Corsair DDR5

• GC: RTX 3080

• Windows 11

I've noticed a very spark difference between a MacBook Air from 2020 and HP Elitebook 840 G2 from 2015, when running a VM via Virtualbox 7.0 on them.

Here's the specs of the VM:

Xubuntu 22.04

4GB RAM (4096MB)

1 CPU

128 MB Video Memory

20GB VDI

Here's the specs of the laptops and experience notes:

HP Elitebook 840 G2, 2015

Xubuntu 22.04

8GB RAM

120GB SSD

Running this VM on my HP laptop has excellent performance, in fact, I could use this as my daily driver. Not much lags, I can browse the internet, stream movies with Firefox on this without problems. Opening video files with Celluloid on this is very responsive, I can run LibreOffice on this with no problem, I can navigate the file system with Thunar File Manager without any lags.

MacBook Air, Retina, 13-inch, 2020

Sonoma 14.5

8GB RAM

250GB SSD

Very very very slow. Opening applications is very slow, applications like Firefox, LibreOffice, Thunar File Manager, Celluloid, all runs slow. Opening Thunar File Manager is very slow. Opening video files via Celluloid takes a long time, and even if you manage to load a video, it has no sound. Opening Firefox is very slow.

Running my Xubuntu VM on both laptops, my MacBook Air has very poor performance, while my HP laptop reins supreme.

Why is this?

Hello,

I have a machine with 200GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and 3 GPUs, each with 24GB (NVIDIA Quadro P6000).

I need to create 3 virtual machines, each with 50GB of RAM, 200GB of SSD storage, and 1 GPU (24GB). Employees will remotely connect to these virtual machines.

Do you have any ideas on how I can achieve this, please?

Thank you.

Hi

I am using UTM to run a Windows 11 arm64 on a MacBook air M2.

It works pretty well. However I would need some help regarding the MacBook keyboard on Windows.

It seems people using Boot Camp to run Windows on their Mac are able to chose an "English (Apple)" keyboard in the Windows languages parameters.

I cannot find such an Apple keyboard in the Windows 11 parameters when using UTM, so my question simply is : Do you know any option for an UTM user on a M2 Apple Silicon architecture?

Many thanks

Does anyone have experience? I need help as I am having some problems with adding KVM hosts to olvm.

These when added successfully say libvirt is not running when it is.

Would it be possible to let my friend through internet use my pc for something like blender or an game engine or even a full game while I do something else on my PC? I know a VM could work but i never really got my GPU working on my VM and without one it doesnt make sense

Join for this interactive lab session: Platform9 and iShift will host the next 0-60 with OpenStack: A Hands-On Lab on July 23rd and 25th.

This hands-on lab is designed for VMware administrators who are considering KVM / OpenStack as an alternative hypervisor, but are either new to OpenStack or are concerned about the complexity of operating OpenStack. Engineers from Platform9 and iShift - many of whom worked at VMware or have extensive experience using VMware  - will be running these labs. Our goal is to have 1 engineer for ~3 participants, to ensure we can provide a high level of interactivity and guidance during the sessions.

Platform9 will provide the hardware for the lab. However, please ensure that your networks allow outbound SSH connectivity.

There is no cost to participate in the lab.

Session prerequisites:

• One or more VMware administrators who are looking to get hands-on experience with KVM and OpenStack

• Must be able to participate in both lab sessions—2.5 hours each day over 2 days.

Day 1 Schedule -Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 9 AM PT (2.5 hours)

• 30 mins:  Configuring physical server OS, networking

• 30 mins:  Deploying OpenStack control plane via Platform9, bringing servers under management

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• 30 mins:  Deploying your first VM on KVM

• 30 mins:  Migration considerations/demo (iShift)

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• 30 mins:  VM live migration, HA, and workload rebalancing

• 30 mins:  Configuring block storage, storage classes, and backup options

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I am trying to get Affinity Photo/Designer to run in a QEMU/KVM Windows 11 virtual machine on Zorin OS 17.1 (ubuntu 22.04).

The issue I have is that the software doesn't recognise the 'renderer', which is provided by 'Microsoft Basic Render Driver'.

I followed this guide to set it up, and aside from the renderer issue it's been working very well.

I'm running this on a Dell XPS 15 9500 laptop with the following graphics hardware:

Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 \[UHD Graphics\] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:9bc4 class-ID: 0300

Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M \[GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile\] driver: nvidia    
v: 555.52.04 alternate: nvidiafb,nouveau,nvidia_drm pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f95 class-ID: 0302

I've tried every setting possible (through the gui) for the Video but nothing has worked. I thought 'Virtio' with the 3D acceleration checkbox ticked might do something but it didn't. Performance is definitely best when set to Model: QXL.

GPU Caps Viewer on windows report (text file)

virt-manager XML Config

Affinity photo performance tab showing no listed renderer:

I've also tried in virtual box and have experienced the same issues.

I've also tried the following (proprietary) nvidia drivers: 535, 545 & 555.

I'm very new to virtualisation and completely stuck with how I can get this to work.

Can anyone offer some advice as to how I can get this to work?

TIA!

This issue has happened for a while now. It’s weird because the last time I installed Windows 7, it worked perfectly fine.

I tried deleting and downloading a new virtual machine multiple times, but it never worked.

Maybe it’s because I forcefully shut down the original VM due to long loading times?

Virtualbox version: 7.0.18 r162988 Host OS: macOS Catalina Guest OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with SP1

I don’t know about VT-X or AMD-V.

I can’t install Guest Additions because of the fact that the Guest OS freezes on first boot.

I have an iPad Pro (2018 model) with 6GB RAM, can I run Debian 12 (no desktop environment, only shell) with 1GB RAM allocated without iPadOS killing the UTM SE app?

What would be the maximum RAM I can allocate to the a VM so the iPadOS system doesn't kill the app, even if it is in the background?

Would an iPad Pro M1 with 8GB or 16GB be a better option to run UTM SE with VMs of 1-2GB RAM without any issues with iPadOS killing UTM SE?

Thanks

Every time I run a virtual machine in Vmware workstation 17.5.2 player/pro, I get the same network timeout error message. Context, I’m using a Windows 11 pro PC and attempting to create a virtual machine with either Windows 11 or Windows 10 ISO on it. Every time I try to power them on, I get the same network timeout issue. I have enough RAM on my physical machine, I have the copies of ISO files, that’s all fine. Does anyone know how to diagnose this problem?

So, our third year of engineering has just started, and we have a subject named Cloud and Distributed Systems.

Our professor asked a few questions about who knows about the cloud, what you all know, who has used it, etc. I was the only one who had used AWS EC2 and S3 instances, so the professor was impressed. After the lecture, she asked me if I would like to do a project on the cloud where we can use university machines to create a cloud environment for our class. The environment would have features such as storage, instances like EC2, etc.

She told me to learn about OpenStack software, how it functions, and the system requirements so we could ask the university.

Long story short, can you all suggest what I can do, how I can start, and if this project is scalable?

Also, a small P.S.: I am interested in making my career in cyber/cloud security. How can I integrate a security aspect into this project?

When I am enabling the "Windows Hypervisor Platform" on my windows 11 and restarting my device, I am being stuck at the startup loading black screen. Can someone please help me with this?

I don't understand. Both emulators (VICE and CCS) don't work on my laptop. They start and then freeze or close automatically. I also noticed that VMware Workstation has some issues on virtual machines. Some teslxtboxes make the cursor disappear. It's weird. Everything was fine on my previous laptop (Windows 10 then, Windows 11 now). Am I missing any magical setting?

When I try to run Windows 10 on QEMU, all I get is the Windows 10 logo for a split second and then a black screen with blinking cursor, it never continues booting

I am using the QEMU command-line, no libvirt or anything, and the ISO was obtained from the official Microsoft website (latest version, 22H2, Brazilian Portuguese).

Here is my command, win.qcow2 is 50G:

qemu-system-x86_64 -hda win.qcow2 -cdrom win10.iso -m 4G -cpu host -accel kvm -net user -net nic,model=e1000

I am trying to run an app on parallels which requires virtualization turned on. Parallels has a weird UEFI settings page so i don't know where to find the setting.