Add User to Proper Groups

$ sudo usermod -aG libvirt <username>
$ newgrp libvirt
$ newgrp <username>

Create Windows VM

• Create a Windows VM in libvirt

  • During installtion find drivers in E:
  • Skip network configuration
  • After installation, run Device Manager and add drivers from E:
    
  • Install E:-win-gt-x64.exe
  • Install https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
  • Uninstall OneDrive (to prevent it from auto-syncing and taking up space)
  • Sign in with Microsoft account
  • Enable RDP (Settings, search for “remote”)
  • Extract cassowary/app-win/bin/*.zip to Desktop
  • Run setup.bat
  • Reboot

Eject CD-ROMs

$ virsh change-media cassowary-win10 sda --eject
$ virsh change-media cassowary-win10 sdb --eject

Install cassowary Linux client

$ dnf install python3-Qt5 python3-libvirt
$ git clone https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary
$ cd cassowary
$ ./buildall.sh
$ cd app-linux/dist
$ python -m venv --system-site-packages $HOME/opt/cassowary
$ source $HOME/opt/cassowary/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip
$ python -m pip install cassowary/app-linux/dist/cassowary*.whl
$ deactivate
$ ln -s ../opt/cassowary/bin/cassowary $HOME/bin/cassowary

Configure cassowary on Linux

• If needed: $ virsh start cassowary-win10
• Start cassowary: $ cassowary -a
• Fill in the following:

  • VM/Guest Info (Cannot use autodetect because this is a Session VM)

    VM Name VM IP Windows Hostname Windows Username Windows Password

  • Advanced

    libvirtURI: qemu:///session Enable VM suspend on inactivity: Enabled Send notification when VM suspends: Enabled

Clone Configured VM

virt-clone --original cassowary-win10 --auto-clone