IMO KVM makes HYPER-V look like a 1 legged dog trying to move on a perfectly smooth icepond. The only drawback is attaching and detaching USB devices needs to be done manually (of course for Disks you can simply share as a network device with the host though). Latest W10 (insider edition) as a VM runs really fast - indistinguishable from Native speed. In Office 2007: Show the Developer tab or run in developer mode. In Office 2016, Office 2013, or Office 2010: Show the Developer tab. I'm bored with VMware and Vbox now !!!! using Linux Hypervisors is so much more fun - takes a bit of work so don't give up on first try !!!! -You'll be amazed too at the performance you can squeeze out of these VM s as well. The Developer tab is not displayed by default, but youll need to add it to the ribbon when you want to use XML commands in Office.
Hope this helps people when trying new ways of creating / using VM's. However you can also call up your desired editor rather than mess around with vi etc. Note athough browsers also can work for xml you can't run a browser from the command line to edit your xml file via virsh.įor example to use to edit in my case here a Windows 10 VM running as a KVM VM one usually uses the virsh edit command. It's not intended as a robust enterprise xml editor (these cost a lot of money usually) but works brilliantly for typical VM config files where the configuration is an xml file. However Geany is a nice little free GUI that does the job. Running Windows (or other) VM's using KVM the configuration files are in XML - and using VI or VIM (or similar text based editors) is a real pain.