Of note, many applications may not run correctly under Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) for a variety of reasons. Using Windows as a client operating system on a KVM/QEMU GNU/Linux host is an excellent approach to the challenge. The following provides an example of my Veilid Network Windows 11 testing host. This uses a Windows 11 base box of my own making. Many of those who have worked with me know I am particular about building each of the base boxes used internally in a specific fashion. This box is not hardened, but is intended to be as generic an install as is operational with Windows.

The reason for using my own base box is I trust myself, more than the Windows boxes put out by other individuals. The building of the box was livestreamed, however I do not have the storage to archive my streaming efforts, and that video has been removed from the archived videos on the streaming services I use.

This is one example, which included a variety of tool installations you may find useful, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code and .NET as well as the addition of another drive, and partitioning in an automated fashion.

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure
# configures the configuration version (we support older styles for
# backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what
# you're doing.
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # The most common configuration options are documented and commented below.
  # For a complete reference, please see the online documentation at
  # https://docs.vagrantup.com.
  config.vm.guest = :windows
  config.vm.communicator = "winssh"
  #
  #config.winrm.username = "vagrant"
  #config.winrm.password = "vagrant"
  #config.winrm.transport = :plaintext
  #config.winrm.basic_auth_only = true
  #config.wnrm.ssl_peer_verification = false
  #
  config.nfs.functional = false
  config.winssh.shell = :powershell
  config.winssh.forward_agent = true
  config.ssh.keep_alive = false
  config.ssh.shell = "cmd"
  config.vm.allow_fstab_modification = false
  config.vm.allow_hosts_modification = false
  # Every Vagrant development environment requires a box. You can search for
  # boxes at https://vagrantcloud.com/search.
 
  config.vm.define :veilidchat do |veilidchat|
    veilidchat.vm.box = "jabreity/win11"
    veilidchat.vm.box_version = "0.1.2"
    veilidchat.vm.provider :libvirt do |libvirt|
      libvirt.id_ssh_key_file = "/home/jason/projects/kali_remote/id_ssh.key"
      #libvirt.uri = "qemu+ssh://10.130.10.50/system"
      libvirt.host = '10.130.10.50'
      libvirt.connect_via_ssh = true
      libvirt.username = "jason"
      libvirt.password = ''
      libvirt.memory = 12048
      libvirt.cpus = 8
      libvirt.driver = 'kvm'
      libvirt.storage_pool_name = "default"
      libvirt.disk_bus = "sata"
      libvirt.nic_model_type = "e1000"
      libvirt.storage :file, :type => 'qcow2', :disk_bus => 'scsi', :size => '40G', :allow_existing => 'False'
      #libvirt.loader = "/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd"
      libvirt.loader = "/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE_4M.secboot.qcow2"
      libvirt.nvram = "/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_VARS_4M.secboot.qcow2"
      #libvirt.machine_type = 'pc-q35-8.1'
      #libvirt.machine_type = 'breitwieser'
      libvirt.machine_type = 'q35'
      #libvirt.boot 'hd'
      libvirt.nested = true
      #libvirt.graphics_port = 5901
      #libvirt.graphics_ip = '0.0.0.0'
      #libvirt.video_type = 'qxl'
      # Required for virtiofs
      # libvirt.memorybacking :access, :mode => "shared"
    end
  end
  config.ssh.username = 'vagrant'
  config.ssh.password = 'vagrant'
  config.ssh.insert_key = false
  # Default false
  config.ssh.forward_agent = true
  config.ssh.forward_x11 = true
  config.ssh.extra_args = "-t"
  # Default true
  #config.ssh.keep_alive = false
 
  # Default 300s
  config.vm.boot_timeout = 3600

  config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true
  #config.vm.provision "file", source: "~/projects/gm-com-chain.pem", destination: "~/"

  
  #config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
  #  echo foo
  #SHELL

  #config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync",
  #  rsync__exclude: ".git/, ./vagrant"
  
  #Start-Process -FilePath "C:\\Users\\vagrant\\veilid\\dev-setup\\setup_windows.bat" -Wait -NoNewWindow
  #config.vm.provision "file", source: "~/projects/gm-com-chain.pem", destination: "~/"
  #config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3389, host: 3389
  #config.vm.network :libvirt__network_name 'default'
  #config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5985, host: 5985, id: "winrm", auto_correct: true
  #Clear-Disk -Number 1 -RemoveData
  #$disk = Get-Disk -Number 1  
  #Initialize-Disk -Number $disk.Number -PartitionStyle GPT -confirm:$false -passthru 
  #New-Partition -DiskNumber $disk.Number -UseMaximumSize -IsActive | Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "Local Disk" -confirm:$False  
  #Set-Partition -DiskNumber $disk.Number -PartitionNumber 1 -NewDriveLetter F 

  config.vm.provision "shell", privileged: "true", powershell_elevated_interactive: "true", preserve_order: "true", inline: <<-SHELL
    Clear-Disk -Number 1 -RemoveData -confirm:$false -passthru
    Initialize-Disk -Number 1 -PartitionStyle GPT -confirm:$false -passthru
    Get-Disk 1 | New-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -DriveLetter F -FriendlyName 'Data'
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\"
    git clone https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid.git
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\veilid"
    wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v23.2/protoc-23.2-win64.zip -O F:\\veilid\\protoc-23.2-win64.zip
    unzip protoc-23.2-win64.zip -d protoc
    $env:PATH += ";F:\\veilid\\protoc\\bin"
    wget https://capnproto.org/capnproto-c++-win32-1.0.1.zip -O F:\\veilid\\capnproto-c++-win32-1.0.1.zip
    unzip capnproto-c++-win32-1.0.1.zip
    $env:PATH += ";F:\\veilid\\capnproto-c++-1.0.1"
    $env:PATH += ";F:\\veilid\\capnproto-tools-win32-1.0.1"
    wget https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/rustup-init.exe -O rustup-init.exe
    wget https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe -o vs_BuildTools.exe
    winget install -e --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools --override "--passive --wait --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools;includeRecommended"
  SHELL
  config.vm.provision "shell", privileged: "true", powershell_elevated_interactive: "true", preserve_order: "true", inline: <<-SHELL
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\veilid"
    ./rustup-init.exe -y
  SHELL
  config.vm.provision "shell", privileged: "true", powershell_elevated_interactive: "true", preserve_order: "true", inline: <<-SHELL
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\veilid"
    $env:PATH = "C:\\Users\\vagrant\\.cargo\\bin" +`
    ";F:\\veilid\\.cargo\\bin" +`
    ";F:\\veilid\\protoc\\bin" +`
    ";F:\\veilid\\capnproto-c++-1.0.1" +`
    ";F:\\veilid\\capnproto-tools-win32-1.0.1" +`
    ";C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools" +`
    $env:PATH
    echo $env:PATH
    #Invoke-Item -Path "F:\\veilid\\dev-setup\\setup_windows.bat"
    #./F:\\veilid\\dev-setup\\setup_windows.bat
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\veilid\\dev-setup"
    .\\setup_windows.bat
    cargo build
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\veilid\\veilid-cli"
    cargo build
    Set-Location -Path "F:\\veilid\\veilid-server"
    echo You may now login using vagrant ssh
    echo and run the following commands to start
    echo cargo build
    echo cargo run --bin veilid-server
  SHELL
end