Re: Migrating an existing system with a different OS

["Walter H." <Walter.H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02.06.2017 15:27, InvalidPath wrote:

On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 31.05.2017 12:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 10:01 +0200, Walter H. wrote:

Hello,

I'm using Windows with several virtual machines (VMware);

is there a way to use these virtual machines with Fedora as host OS?

Yes. There is a free-to-use version of VMware Workstation for Fedora.
Check the VMware web page. You can also convert your VMware VMs to run
under KVM/QEMU ('man qemu-img'). Another alternative is VirtualBox.

poc

Hello,

does this mean,
I can have VMware Workstation for Fedora without having to pay for it?

I guess the conversion of these VMware VMs won't work, as they are Windows VMs ...

Greetings,
Walter





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Walter, I currently use Fedora as my main OS but I do need a little Windows from time to time. KVM/QEMU run Win10 almost better than dedicated hardware did!

Virtualbox also runs on Linux and does a bang up job at hosting Windows, is there something holding you to VMware or is it a comfortability thing?

I have two VMs which use a device I plug onto a real USB port of the host ...
(one is a scanner, and one is sometimes my cellphone - address book)

some VMs are older Windows (WinNT, Win2K) and most are WinXP(x64)

I'm not sure of a VM solution other than VMware which supports this ...

Greetings,
Walter

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