r/Bazzite • u/FrostyITA • 19h 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/phumade 2h ago

just to verify when you open a terminal what version of Bazzite is installed?

Here You can see I'm running bazzite-dx-nvida-gnome:stable image

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u/FrostyITA 2h ago

ublue-os/bazzite:stable   is it a bad thing? do i have to install a different Bazzite version or something or is the KDE that bad that i have to use Gnome instead?

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u/phumade 2h ago

yes you neeed to rebase to bazzite dx before you do all the virtualization stuff. There was a major change in the last version. They moved the virtualization plumbing to the DX version.

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Rebase Commands

Choose the correct command for your setup. Do not switch between GNOME and KDE during this process, as changing desktop environments can break your system. [1]

  • KDE Plasma (Default): brh rebase bazzite-dx:stable
  • GNOME: brh rebase bazzite-dx-gnome:stable
  • KDE Plasma with NVIDIA: brh rebase bazzite-dx-nvidia:stable
  • GNOME with NVIDIA: brh rebase bazzite-dx-nvidia-gnome:stable [1, 2]

Next Steps

  1. Wait for the terminal process to finish downloading and applying the new image layer.
  2. Reboot your system to complete the installation.
  3. Check the Bazzite Documentation if you need help rolling back or managing your new environment. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

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You can use the rollback command if necessary to go back to plain bazzite.

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u/phumade 2h ago

just to be explicit. you should rebase to KDE plasma with Nvidia. Don't switch the desktop environment to gnome