Auto-IDLE VM if not in use

[Shaarigan]

Hey,

I'm interested in your project especially since I look forward to make Linux my every day environment to work on. I came across your project by looking for making Playnite run on Linux (either via WINE/Bottles or by your or a similar project). There was however another project mentioned in the Playnite-Forum called cassowary that aims to be more resource saving approach.

Cassowary supports:
Running Windows applications as if they were native applications
Opening files from a Linux host directly inside Windows applications
Using Linux apps to open files that are on a Windows VM
Allowing easy access between both the guest and host filesystems
An easy-to-use configuration utility
Creating an application launcher for Windows application
Automatically suspending the VM when no Windows application is in use and automatically resuming it when required (virt-manager only)

I'm especially interested in that Automatically suspending the VM when no Windows application is in use and automatically resuming it when required (virt-manager only) feature and want to know if your project supports that as well. I however could't find any information about that in your repo. If so, I'm sorry if I haven't seen them

[oskardotglobal]

Winapps is currently undergoing a rewrite. This is definitely a planned feature, but not supported at the moment. However, doing this using legacy winapps and quickemu would probably be really easy, since you could just start the VM before connecting via RDP and making the required changes to the script should be quite straight forward and something we could all assist you with.

[oskardotglobal]

Also, unless you're running dual GPUs you'd probably want single-gpu-passthrough, which is also unsupported at the moment.

[Shaarigan]

Depends on what this is supposed to offer in the end. I mean I can already run some productivity Apps like Photoshop 2021 on WINE and a ton of games already work thanks to the work of Steam and GloriousEggroll so what I'm currently looking this or cassowary to achieve is to run those Apps that I don't get to run on Linux currently by neither WINE or Proton.

Playnite for example (they have a rewrite for Linux on their roadmap but that might take a while) or Visual Studio but we also have Rider as an replacement

[LDprg]

This seems like a duplicate of #17

[flashifloosh]

Is there any update on this?