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Installation in a KVM virtual machine

Stephan Raabe edited this page Nov 25, 2024 · 6 revisions

In virt-manager please make sure that 3D acceleration is enabled in Video Virtio and the Listen type is set to None in Display Spice.

To improve the mouse support on Hyprland in the VM, open the Hyprland settings with SUPER + CTRL + S and select in Environments the variation kvm.conf

If you're running the ML4W Dotfiles as a host, you can pass the SUPER key to the VM with SUPER + P

Use Hyprland in a Virtual Machine

Troubleshooting

The current version 0.45.2 isn't working in a Virtual Machine (See https://github.com/hyprwm/aquamarine/issues/109)

You have to downgrade to an older version 0.45.0.

You can do this with the package downgrade

yay -S downgrade

sudo downgrade aquamarine

Select aquamarine 0.4.5-1

sudo downgrade hyprland

Select hyprland 0.45.0-1

Add both packages to IgnorePkg

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