I’m having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can’t get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing the folder with Samba, and can see it from another Linux VM, but not from windows. Any clues?

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    there are a few programs that I use which are Win only

    Have you tried Bottles/WINE/Proton/whatever?

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzOP
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      6 months ago

      Some people have, with not great results. The software is the Affinity suite (design, photo, publishing, and I have used Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus, but they aren’t there yet for me) A windows VM is fine for now, but VB is a bit sluggish. My aim is to set-up a physical partition for the VM, and try GPU passthough.

      • progandy@feddit.de
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        6 months ago

        There is or was a project called WinApps i think that made it easy to set up a VM to run some applications.