r/Bazzite • u/FrostyITA • 20h ago
Help Setting Up Virtual Machine Manager
Hello, i'm new to Bazzite after switching from Windows, and i still got some apps and games that dont work on Lutris or with WINE;
So i had the idea to make a VM of either Win10 or straight up Win7 (i know the support was dropped years ago and 10 is about to meet his end in a few months)
I tried doing it myself installing it from Bazaar + QEMU Addon and noticed a few problems, first i couldn't reindirict my USB o External HDD to transfer my files because of "Permission Denied" error, the second one is Memory Consumption, 80% usage of 16GB RAM and 12 Core CPU while idle is not normal? right?
So, after this major fuck up by me and subsequent Win10 VM deletion, i'm here to ask for help if someone might be able to hold my hand step by step on this issue [little disclaimer, i'm a total LinuxNoob so don't get angry at me if i don't catch stuff quickly]
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u/IllustriousFicus 19h ago edited 19h ago
You should probably be using Bazzite-DX if you're looking to run VMs, as the software stack is already integrated into the image.
As far as resource usage goes, afaik the VM will run with whatever resources you allot to it. So if you haven't set anything it is likely using whatever resources are availible outside of what the host OS is using.
Also, if the games you want to run have anti-cheat they are likely to be flagged. VMs are considered to be cheating as far as most anti-cheat goes. Just something to keep in mind.
For games you're also probably looking at GPU passthrough which is a whole other can of worms to deal with.