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This post is about my experience running a Linux desktop virtual machine on a Linux host. I used the VM interactively, often in fullscreen mode, to develop software and run web apps (mostly Slack and Google Docs). My experience wasn't great, as I ran into many challenges.

My previous post on running VMs discussed running bare-bones Linux VMs and getting SSH access to them. I usually do that for testing, where the VMs are light-weight, shortlived, and disposable. It turns out that long-lived desktop VMs have more challenging requirements and come with a whole new set of issues.

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