It's that time of the year again to try setting up a Linux PC for family purposes, opening WhatsApp, YouTube, downloading and printing school assignments...

Previously was using a laptop but the camera and wifi are failing.

While saving up for a dedicated PC, I'm repurposing my old workstation, ThinkPad x220 core i7 16GB RAM, as Family PC.

Features

  1. Shared Folder
  2. Seamless windows

In short, I cannot achieve this because of an error when installing VirtIO for Shared Folder. So I will use VirtualBox for now.

Tutorials

  1. https://www.debugpoint.com/kvm-share-folder-windows-guest/
  2. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1310440/using-virtio-win-drivers-with-win7-sp1-x64 downloaded 179-4.iso
  3. when installing, got error Image description

Resources

  1. Kubuntu 24.04 ISO
  2. Windows 7 ISO, the version I used is en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso 1

Steps

  1. install kubuntu 24.04, minimum install is ok
  2. open konsole, execute # in this step I installed using Discover GUI 
$ sudo apt update && apt install virt-manager
  1. make sure libvirtd is enabled and started 
$ sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
$ sudo systemctl start libvirtd
  1. copy windows 7 iso to the new laptop

References

FAQs

  1. How can I get Windows 7 ISO?
    Answer: how to obtain the ISO is left as exercise for the reader

  2. "QEMU/KVM - Not Connected" or "Error: No active connection to install on"
    Answer: check libvirtd is running