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    • siringoS
      siringo
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      Well I've managed to hook 3 hosts together via ZeroTier, what a great product/service, I'll be looking into that a bit further.
      I nuked my W10 laptop as that was an upgrade from W8.1 to 10 and it was being held together by wire and sticky tape. I've installed Fedora WS on it.
      I've just been racing into this and most likely not reading as much as I should, but so far so good.
      So i've installed a 2016 server VM on the Fedora host, all went well except I can't use the mouse or kbd in the VM. In a Windows world I'd be fine, but with this being an OS I'm not familiar with, this may take a little hunting to work out.

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce
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        Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

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        • siringoS
          siringo @Obsolesce
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          @obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

          Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

          Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @siringo
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            @siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

            @obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

            Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

            Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

            https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

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            • siringoS
              siringo @JaredBusch
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              @jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

              @siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

              @obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

              Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

              Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

              https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

              I had another look at this last night.
              I've installed, sorry if this sounds a little confused, I'm not a Linux user, KVM/QEMU onto my Fedora laptop and managed to install a copy of Server 2016 as a VM. Only problem is I cannot get the mouse & keyboard to switch from physical to virtual hosts, it's a real mess, very very frustrating, so frustrating in fact I nuked Fedora & installed Ubuntu. But that's as far as I got last night.
              I'm going to try my luck with Virtualbox on Ubuntu.

              What is it with Fedora anyway? Seems like a darn fiddly thing to use.

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              • jmooreJ
                jmoore @siringo
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                @siringo Actually Fedora has been the most solid Linux offering for me to use. I suppose you have had some bad luck though. If I remember some laptop hardware runs better with Linux than others. Not sure if this is the issue but may be a place to start.

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                • siringoS
                  siringo @jmoore
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                  @jmoore said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                  @siringo Actually Fedora has been the most solid Linux offering for me to use. I suppose you have had some bad luck though. If I remember some laptop hardware runs better with Linux than others. Not sure if this is the issue but may be a place to start.

                  There could be something in what you say. Ubuntu has installed on this laptop really well, so far everything has worked out of the box. Wifi, trackpad, sound. Maybe I will have more luck with this OS?

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                  • ObsolesceO
                    Obsolesce
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                    I haven't seen any Fedora related issues in this thread. What I see the problem is the lack of drivers in the Windows VM.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @siringo
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                      @siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                      @jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                      @siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                      @obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                      Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

                      Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

                      https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

                      I had another look at this last night.
                      I've installed, sorry if this sounds a little confused, I'm not a Linux user, KVM/QEMU onto my Fedora laptop and managed to install a copy of Server 2016 as a VM. Only problem is I cannot get the mouse & keyboard to switch from physical to virtual hosts, it's a real mess, very very frustrating, so frustrating in fact I nuked Fedora & installed Ubuntu. But that's as far as I got last night.
                      I'm going to try my luck with Virtualbox on Ubuntu.

                      What is it with Fedora anyway? Seems like a darn fiddly thing to use.

                      Did you install the spice driver into the windows instance? If not, of course nothing works.

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                      • siringoS
                        siringo @JaredBusch
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                        @jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                        @siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                        @jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                        @siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                        @obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

                        Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

                        Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

                        https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

                        I had another look at this last night.
                        I've installed, sorry if this sounds a little confused, I'm not a Linux user, KVM/QEMU onto my Fedora laptop and managed to install a copy of Server 2016 as a VM. Only problem is I cannot get the mouse & keyboard to switch from physical to virtual hosts, it's a real mess, very very frustrating, so frustrating in fact I nuked Fedora & installed Ubuntu. But that's as far as I got last night.
                        I'm going to try my luck with Virtualbox on Ubuntu.

                        What is it with Fedora anyway? Seems like a darn fiddly thing to use.

                        Did you install the spice driver into the windows instance? If not, of course nothing works.

                        No mate I didn't, I wasn't sure what to do and it was getting late so I just changed plans. This entire thing is about learning new bits and pieces, so there's no grief with any of it.

                        Thanks everyone for all the help so far.

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