heh... my qemu still runs
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So that Looking Glass does use libvirt and Spice for some of it. What's kind of promising about this is that it will plug into virt-manager (have to edit some XML etc.) but it's libvirt. It's only for Windows guests, but also would just be used for Windows guests.
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
I decided that I'm just not going to do it at this time. Why do I even care... it's just that I can't stand it when I could have something better and I don't lol
The Windows 11 VM is just to get some screenshots for the article I could be working on instead of fighting with this poo. I don't need 3D hardware acceleration, 2D desktop performance is OK.
The Linux VM is good enough with that virgl. Before I thought of this I was crowing about having even that much hardware assist lol. That's what I'm more likely to run, Linux VMs to get a specific dev environment or something, not Windows.
Honestly, I almost don't even want to find out what fuckery that might cause on this motherboard, enabling that and redirecting to passthrough and stepping on i/o etc. I'd rather leave the adapter all but disabled since I have no real need to do this. I'm happy with what I've got now.
The Windows 11 VM is just to get some screenshots for the article I could be working on instead of fighting with this poo. I don't need 3D hardware acceleration, 2D desktop performance is OK.
The Linux VM is good enough with that virgl. Before I thought of this I was crowing about having even that much hardware assist lol. That's what I'm more likely to run, Linux VMs to get a specific dev environment or something, not Windows.
Honestly, I almost don't even want to find out what fuckery that might cause on this motherboard, enabling that and redirecting to passthrough and stepping on i/o etc. I'd rather leave the adapter all but disabled since I have no real need to do this. I'm happy with what I've got now.
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
Ahh fuck, the one time I wouldn't want this, Windows automatically activated itself based on my fake TPM. I completely blew it away (repartitioned and everything) and said "I don't have a product key" during setup and it did this anyway the instant I installed network drivers in Windows 
I wanted to demonstrate that you can't change most settings until Windows 11 is activated. I wanted to show it, for maximum impact, not just mention it.
I wanted to demonstrate that you can't change most settings until Windows 11 is activated. I wanted to show it, for maximum impact, not just mention it.
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
Yeah it'll do that if the hardware configuration has been seen before 
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
I didn't want to blow away the whole machine, having to reconfigure it is more significant than blowing away a Windows installation itself
The only way that could work would be a different TPM string every time. Otherwise Microsoft would just blacklist them, I'm certain. (what else could they do?)
It's not that important to start over again.
Edit: That might not even cause a manual reactivation. It would be more than just the TPM involved. It's CPU passthrough, it would have access to CPUID. Whatever strange vcpu configuration I might have, my CPU is still fingerprinted (I still want to use CPU passthrough, I want things to execute correctly/optimally). The rest of the virtual hardware (except MAC addresses, but that's only one criterion) would be the same between new VM's too. When my nephew first built his system, the CPU wasn't installed correctly and they mashed a few pins in one spot. It actually ran long enough for him to get Windows installed, use it for a while and inform his friend of his success before arcing broke contact etc. Anyway, Windows automatically activated (or didn't de-activate) on his motherboard replacement. (So it's more than just the TPM)
I have lots of ideas for this article I'm writing. It's going to cover "take control of your web browsing", kick Edge to the curb, and use Firefox and Ublock Origin. Another section is going to be "take control of your office software. Fuck Office 365, get a load of LibreOffice" sort of thing.
Take control of, and take pride in your desktop! Change appearance and settings to your liking. Get rid of fugly vendor supplied/branded wallpaper and get a nice slideshow theme, or make your own slideshow directory with appropriately dimensioned images.
Virtual Desktops. Windows 11 actually has the best Microsoft implementation of them yet. Not as nice as how we use them, but not as awkward. They aren't really prominent in the UI and one might not even know the functionality is there unless you make use of them. Actually KDE is like that too now, unless you went over and clicked on the little desktop switcher, you wouldn't even know you have 2 (out of the box) virtual desktops. That's dumbed down and lame, I would put a desktop pager on my panel (at least in KDE you can)
Other ideas I'm thinking of (maybe)... "Take control of your privacy, get an anonymizing VPN for when you don't want your ISP crawling up your ass". Take control of your torrenting, get Transmission, not those disgusting adware driven shitware clients. (Transmission has gotten surprisingly good, there was a time when it was inferior to Bittorrent/uTorrent clients)
These are ALL the things I would have to do, to be able to make any kind of a home out of Windows 11.
The only way that could work would be a different TPM string every time. Otherwise Microsoft would just blacklist them, I'm certain. (what else could they do?)
It's not that important to start over again.
Edit: That might not even cause a manual reactivation. It would be more than just the TPM involved. It's CPU passthrough, it would have access to CPUID. Whatever strange vcpu configuration I might have, my CPU is still fingerprinted (I still want to use CPU passthrough, I want things to execute correctly/optimally). The rest of the virtual hardware (except MAC addresses, but that's only one criterion) would be the same between new VM's too. When my nephew first built his system, the CPU wasn't installed correctly and they mashed a few pins in one spot. It actually ran long enough for him to get Windows installed, use it for a while and inform his friend of his success before arcing broke contact etc. Anyway, Windows automatically activated (or didn't de-activate) on his motherboard replacement. (So it's more than just the TPM)
I have lots of ideas for this article I'm writing. It's going to cover "take control of your web browsing", kick Edge to the curb, and use Firefox and Ublock Origin. Another section is going to be "take control of your office software. Fuck Office 365, get a load of LibreOffice" sort of thing.
Take control of, and take pride in your desktop! Change appearance and settings to your liking. Get rid of fugly vendor supplied/branded wallpaper and get a nice slideshow theme, or make your own slideshow directory with appropriately dimensioned images.
Virtual Desktops. Windows 11 actually has the best Microsoft implementation of them yet. Not as nice as how we use them, but not as awkward. They aren't really prominent in the UI and one might not even know the functionality is there unless you make use of them. Actually KDE is like that too now, unless you went over and clicked on the little desktop switcher, you wouldn't even know you have 2 (out of the box) virtual desktops. That's dumbed down and lame, I would put a desktop pager on my panel (at least in KDE you can)
Other ideas I'm thinking of (maybe)... "Take control of your privacy, get an anonymizing VPN for when you don't want your ISP crawling up your ass". Take control of your torrenting, get Transmission, not those disgusting adware driven shitware clients. (Transmission has gotten surprisingly good, there was a time when it was inferior to Bittorrent/uTorrent clients)
These are ALL the things I would have to do, to be able to make any kind of a home out of Windows 11.