Re: Migrating an existing system with a different OS

InvalidPath <invalid.path@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:05:11 -0600

On Jun 2, 2017 8:01 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    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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You can pass-through USB devices on all of them with varying degrees of success. I run a virtualuzed Ubuntu at home that acts as a print server using a usb printer over virtualbox. Ive pass-through'd thumbdrives over both virtualbox and kvm before.
So it is possible with other hypervisors.
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