Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 28 Cinnamon Desktop
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I rarely see my desktop, so desktop icons are completely useless to me.
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@travisdh1 said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Dashrender said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Do you find pinning things to the start menu helpful instead of typing something into cortana?
Cortana was so bad when Windows 10 released, it's the first thing I get rid of on the start menu bar. Have they improved it much since release?
Yeah I remove it from my task bar too. That screen shot is just the default sysprepped image right after deployment.
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@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I rarely see my desktop, so desktop icons are completely useless to me.
Don't disagree with you there. But clicking Cortana then typing a few characters of what you're looking for, then hit enter seems better than looking for an icon in that mass of icons.
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@travisdh1 said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Dashrender said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Do you find pinning things to the start menu helpful instead of typing something into cortana?
Cortana was so bad when Windows 10 released, it's the first thing I get rid of on the start menu bar. Have they improved it much since release?
I rarely customize my setup these days. Mostly so I don't forget "the norm" when working on someone else's computer, and frankly the customization rarely is overly beneficial.
Though I do pin my own most commonly used things to the task bar.
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Same here, I run things very stock no matter what the platform.
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Did you install the SPICE drivers for Windows 10? It fixes issues with copy and paste as well as provides dynamic cursor capture.
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I'm using Korora as the base OS on my Lenovo laptop. It's actually been significantly more stable then Windows 10. Granted I've only been using it for a week.
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@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I'm using Korora as the base OS on my Lenovo laptop. It's actually been significantly more stable then Windows 10.
Pretty low bar there.
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@Dashrender said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I rarely see my desktop, so desktop icons are completely useless to me.
Don't disagree with you there. But clicking Cortana then typing a few characters of what you're looking for, then hit enter seems better than looking for an icon in that mass of icons.
I go both ways. If it's not pinned on my task bar, I will do it either way depending on what I'm doing:
If both hands are on keyboard, I'll hit the windows key to bring up start and start typing what I want.
If I'm using the mouse, I'll hit the windows key to bring up start and click what I want, rather than bringing over my other hand to start typing. -
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@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Did you install the SPICE drivers for Windows 10? It fixes issues with copy and paste as well as provides dynamic cursor capture.
Are the SPICE drivers something I would install in addition to all the stuff in the virtio-win.iso? I haven't done anything with those SPICE drivers.
Asking because when I'm in full screen mode, I can't even tell I'm on a VM.
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@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Did you install the SPICE drivers for Windows 10? It fixes issues with copy and paste as well as provides dynamic cursor capture.
Are the SPICE drivers something I would install in addition to all the stuff in the virtio-win.iso? I haven't done anything with those SPICE drivers.
Asking because when I'm in full screen mode, I can't even tell I'm on a VM.
Yes, the SPICE drivers would be in addtion. If you're in full screen don't worry about it but the SPICE drivers make it much easier to work between Windows and Fedora.
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@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Did you install the SPICE drivers for Windows 10? It fixes issues with copy and paste as well as provides dynamic cursor capture.
Are the SPICE drivers something I would install in addition to all the stuff in the virtio-win.iso? I haven't done anything with those SPICE drivers.
Asking because when I'm in full screen mode, I can't even tell I'm on a VM.
Yes, the SPICE drivers would be in addtion. If you're in full screen don't worry about it but the SPICE drivers make it much easier to work between Windows and Fedora.
I noticed that in the VM settings, the Display already says "Display Spice". Does that mean they are already installed?
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@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Did you install the SPICE drivers for Windows 10? It fixes issues with copy and paste as well as provides dynamic cursor capture.
Are the SPICE drivers something I would install in addition to all the stuff in the virtio-win.iso? I haven't done anything with those SPICE drivers.
Asking because when I'm in full screen mode, I can't even tell I'm on a VM.
Yes, the SPICE drivers would be in addtion. If you're in full screen don't worry about it but the SPICE drivers make it much easier to work between Windows and Fedora.
I noticed that in the VM settings, the Display already says "Display Spice". Does that mean they are already installed?
I don't believe so, but that could be. It doesn't come pre-installed and isn't part of the virtio iso that I'm aware of.
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@Tim_G I believe that if you get this SPICE driver installed inside windows then you get clipboard copy paste portability and such.
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@JaredBusch said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G I believe that if you get this SPICE driver installed inside windows then you get clipboard copy paste portability and such.
I see. I did a quick search and found these:
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE
https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.htmlAt quick glance it looks a little confusing or involved. It will take me a bit to knock it down into easy steps like in my original post. That's how I like to do things if possible, if anyone already has notes on it that would be helpful.
Otherwise, I won't be able to touch this until the weekend. I'm too busy to break things atm. -
@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G I believe that if you get this SPICE driver installed inside windows then you get clipboard copy paste portability and such.
I see. I did a quick search and found these:
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE
https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.htmlAt quick glance it looks a little confusing or involved. It will take me a bit to knock it down into easy steps like in my original post. That's how I like to do things if possible, if anyone already has notes on it that would be helpful.
Otherwise, I won't be able to touch this until the weekend. I'm too busy to break things atm.Nope it's really simple. https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
From here: https://www.spice-space.org/download.html
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@coliver awesome. nailed it..
Now the only thing I want is to figure out how to get the full screen mode to use both of my monitors.But I have not even googled that yet.
I am supposed to be workign atm...
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@JaredBusch said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@coliver awesome. nailed it..
Now the only thing I want is to figure out how to get the full screen mode to use both of my monitors.But I have not even googled that yet.
I am supposed to be workign atm...
I'm pretty sure this will work but I haven't tested it.
https://www.spice-space.org/page/MultiHeadVirtManagerWindowsGuests
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@coliver said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch said in Bringing up a Win10 VM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G I believe that if you get this SPICE driver installed inside windows then you get clipboard copy paste portability and such.
I see. I did a quick search and found these:
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE
https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.htmlAt quick glance it looks a little confusing or involved. It will take me a bit to knock it down into easy steps like in my original post. That's how I like to do things if possible, if anyone already has notes on it that would be helpful.
Otherwise, I won't be able to touch this until the weekend. I'm too busy to break things atm.Nope it's really simple. https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
From here: https://www.spice-space.org/download.html
Oh, so this is a guest only thing? Don't I have to install SPICE server or something on Fedora?
I thought I had to do a ton of things in Fedora CLI.
I guess I'm just so lost atm because I haven't had time to properly look into it yet.
