WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/winboat-is-a-new-linux-app-to-run-windows-apps-with-seamless-integration/

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aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Docker AND KVM

Wtf

towerful@programming.dev · 10 pts · 1y

Containerise your Virtual Machines!
Or... Virtual Machinerise your Containers?

maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Yeah, if I wanted a VM, I'd be running a VM...

tyler@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

If this is just winapps with a different coat of paint then it’s still not gonna work for me. I haven’t managed to get several apps requiring a gpu running through WinApps properly.

  • Meshmixer
  • RealityCapture/RealityScan

And posting about them in the forums and discord has gotten me no help.

Jode@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

So I assume solidworks ain't gonna work on this.

TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world · 2 pts · 1y

If anyone gets updates on Solidworks on Linux, get back to us. One of my managers is so upset about having to use Windows.

unskilled5117@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Has anyone tried this on bazzite? Mind sharing if it works? Are there any steps necessary to make it work?

Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y

It requires rootful Docker, KVM, and AppImage (FUSE2). As long as those requirements are met, it should work. Should be as simple as using ujust or rpm-ostree to install the necessary packages.

x00z@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I guess this looks like WSL on Windows, except the other way around?

Ulrich@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

Looks like Parallels for MacOS? I'll have to give it a go.

clot27@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1y (7 replies)

How about just using virtualbox.. Or maybe wine and stuff

F04118F@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Virtualbox is VMs. This is containers.

Containers are better, especially for a desktop: they are smaller, faster in every sense, and don't permanently hog a fixed part of the resources, instead scaling dynamically, just like any other process on the host.

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

A VM in a container actually

Ulrich@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What will they thing of next? A container in a VM?

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y

Actually that is how ChromeOS does the Linux environment. They run a container image in a small performant VM and passthrough the windows with some fancy Wayland tool.

Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nowadays you can also assign a dynamic amount of memory. I've only ever used this with Linux VMs on Proxmox though, but I'm pretty sure it works with Windows as well

Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You're probably thinking of LXCs, which are containers not virtual machines

Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor.

See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory

aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 1y
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11111one11111@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y