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Looking Glass is an extremely low latency KVMFR (KVM FrameRelay) implementation for guests with VGA PCI Passthrough. It lets users use a Windows virtual machine from Linux with very low display and input latency. The recommended setup uses the Looking Glass Indirect Display Driver in the Windows guest and the Looking Glass Client on the Linux host. The Linux client is distributed as source code and must be built before installation.
QuickEmu is a GitHub-hosted open source tool that enables users to quickly create and run optimized virtual machines running Windows, macOS, or Linux. The repository includes documentation covering the project's introduction, core features, and usage instructions.
Distrod is a systemd-based meta-distro for WSL 2 that installs distributions such as Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Gentoo with systemd, or makes a current distro run systemd. It provides a built-in auto-start feature and a port forwarding service, allowing systemd-managed services to start on Windows startup and be reachable from outside Windows.
Vagrant is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt, mainly QEMU/KVM virtual machines, with Xen and libvirt LXC containers supported. It also provides command line tools: virt-install to create virtual machines, virt-clone to duplicate them and virt-xml to edit them or manipulate libvirt XML.
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualization software for x86_64 hardware, with version 7.1 additionally for macOS/Arm. It targets laptop, desktop, server and embedded use, offers a graphical user interface, and is available for Linux, Windows, macOS and Solaris. The repository holds the source code for Oracle VirtualBox.
WSLg stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI and enables running Linux GUI applications (X11 and Wayland) on Windows in an integrated desktop experience. It is intended for developers, scientists or enthusiasts who need to run tools or applications that work best, or exclusively, in a Linux environment. It is supported on Windows 11 and Windows 10.
winevdm is a tool that allows 16-bit Windows operating systems including Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1 to run on 64-bit Windows systems. Its source code is hosted in a public GitHub repository, with documentation for setup, configuration, and compilation.
WSL, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, is a Microsoft project that enables Linux binary executables to run natively on Windows. Its official source code is hosted in a public GitHub repository, with documentation for usage and contribution.
