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Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

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Thank you Nate. That is quite informative. In my case there is no need to
share files over a network, though some data may be required to be stored
in the local machine.

Trips



On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 6:27 PM Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:

> * On 2020 27 Jun 05:48 -0500, manish tripathi wrote:
> > Thank you for the responses. I was looking for a general purpose
> > solution...I can safely assume that VM soln may mostly work, while the
> same
> > may not be guaranteed with use of WINE.
>
> IME, Qemu has various issues with Windows guests, such things as the
> mouse cursor not being able to go to certain desktop edges after a time
> of running.  I found VirtualBox was much better suited for Windows
> guests but VB is not a part of Buster or Bullseye in the main
> repositories so I had to install the packages made available by Lucas
> Nussbaum for Buster: https://people.debian.org/~lucas/virtualbox-buster/
>
> > Can one also explain about the malware that may impact my Linux/Buster,
> in
> > case I use a VM for running my Windows app and what can I do to minimise
> > such impact.
>
> Someone may have better information, but it seems to me that the VM is
> rather well sandboxed whether Qemu or VB.  If there are shared folders
> then malware could have access to those files and the network.
> Certainly, anything/everything in the VM could be compromised.
> VirtualBox has the feature of snapshots so that a VM could be rolled
> back to a known (suspected?) good state.
>
> - Nate
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WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster manish tripathi <manishtrips@gmail.com> - 2020-06-27 11:00 +0200
  Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-06-27 11:30 +0200
  Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-27 12:00 +0200
    Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster manish tripathi <manishtrips@gmail.com> - 2020-06-27 12:50 +0200
      Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-06-27 15:00 +0200
        Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster manish tripathi <manishtrips@gmail.com> - 2020-06-27 18:50 +0200
  Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-27 12:20 +0200

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