virtual machine Can I share folders between Linux host and Windows vm (that's not run with VirtualBox)?

[Shutset]

I've been inspired by this video by Chris Titus "The Ultimate System" wherein he's made a Linux host machine that simultaneously runs a Windows virtual machine with libvirt.

 

I want to run a computer with Nobara Linux as its host operating system with a Windows 10 or 11 virtual machine with QEMU

or any other VM software other than VirtualBox. I want it to be a gaming machine with the Windows VM used for any games I can't run on Wine or any other Windows-only software like Adobe Creative Suite.

 

So I'd like both operating systems to share the same games library and I want to know how it's possible to enable shared folders in QEMU or any other software. I know how to use shared folders in VirtualBox but I heard that other VM software like QEMU are supposed to be much better somehow - I don't know all the details so I'd appreciate it anyone enlightened me on that too.

 

Thanks.

[C2dan88]

24 minutes ago, Shutset said:

ow it's possible to enable shared folders in QEMU or any other software.

With qemu you can  passthrough a shared folder to the vm. For a windows guest to access you'll need to use virtio-fs service to read the shared folder

https://www.debugpoint.com/kvm-share-folder-windows-guest/

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just saying, your still gonna have game compatibility issues with anti cheat and VMs. I'd probalby run windows on the host, and put linux in a vm for other tasks here.

 

You can run a network share between the host and the guest, but I'm pretty sure linux and windows don't use the game file as the executables files are different.