If you want to set it up manually, you’ll have to look into qemu and virtio.
If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called “gnome boxes”), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.
Time to download Virtualbox
Is Virtualbox still considered the go-to VM program? I haven’t been keeping up.
Very much no
Use libvirtd/Qemu on Linux and Hyper-V on Windows
I recommend using a kernel virtual machine.
KVM comes with the Linux kernel.
If you want to set it up manually, you’ll have to look into qemu and virtio.
If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called “gnome boxes”), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.
KVM is just the hypervisor, not the whole package.
Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.
These days I’m mostly using docker containers but all my docker containers as well as my hosts are flavors of Linux so YMMV.
Why?
So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.