3:01 a.m.
Hello,
I'm using Windows with several virtual machines (VMware);
is there a way to use these virtual machines with Fedora as host OS?
Thanks,
Walter
3:39 a.m.
Walter,
Yes (I am almost certain, but you need to try it and see). For free or
with a budget? I assume free.
You are familiar with VMware so you will want to stick with that. An
alternative would be KVM. You will want to install the VMware host
software ESXi, I think it is free.
The online info for RedHat will often also apply to Fedora. In Google,
search for rhel or RedHat or Centos or Fedora (not all at once!). Your
challenge is that Fedora is leading edge, and can be different than
RedHat. VMware migt depend on specific versions of Redhat (I have that
problem with VirtualBox).
The links below do not tell you exactly what you need, they are just
what I found quickly. Other folks will have more specific answers.
cheers -- Rick
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esxi_i_get_start.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastruc...
http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2016/02/25/getting-started-with-the-red-hat-co...
On 2017-05-31 04:01 AM, 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?
Thanks,
Walter
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5:03 a.m.
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
7:05 a.m.
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
8:27 a.m.
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H(a)mathemainzel.info> 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?
9 a.m.
On 02.06.2017 15:27, InvalidPath wrote:
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H(a)mathemainzel.info
<mailto:Walter.H@mathemainzel.info>> wrote:
On 31.05.2017 12 <tel:31.05.2017%2012>: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
9:05 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 04:00:44PM +0200, Walter H. wrote:
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 ...
Qemu-kvm supports USB passthrough.
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
9:20 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 10:05:04 -0400
Matthew Miller wrote:
Qemu-kvm supports USB passthrough.
Yep. I use this fairly frequently. In virt-viewer the File
menu has a usb device selection entry which brings up
a dialog with usb devices and checkboxes. Checking a
box is like plugging that USB device into the virtual
machine, unchecking it is like unplugging it.
You can also edit the VM definition to permanently hook
up a USB device so it will always be connected to that
VM.
9:05 a.m.
On Jun 2, 2017 8:01 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H(a)mathemainzel.info> wrote:
On 02.06.2017 15:27, InvalidPath wrote:
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H(a)mathemainzel.info> 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.
9:10 a.m.
VMware should have an export function so you can move the images. It is
independent of OS. Build a fedora machine (or dual boot) with VMware and
check for function. The last is for your learning curve with
Fedora/VMware. Honestly, I used to just copy the files but mine was Linux
to Linux on various distros. Like wise I used to build client VM and take
them to their system on my thumbdrive. Moving should be fairly straight
forward. I use Vbox now so don't have VMware up to see the menu option,
sorry, but the option to export should still be there.
-- Fred
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:27 AM, InvalidPath <invalid.path(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H(a)mathemainzel.info> 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?
_______________________________________________
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10:31 a.m.
On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 14:05 +0200, Walter H. 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?
VMware have a free (as in beer) option for Workstation for personal
use.
I guess the conversion of these VMware VMs won't work, as they
are
Windows VMs ...
They are *virtual* machines. They can run on any host that supports the
specific VM environment (such as Linux) with any guest that's installed
on them (such as Windows). In fact this may well be the most common use
of VMs in Linux. As I said before, you can do this with VMware (of
which there are several packages, Workstation being the most common for
individual users), or QEMU/KVM, or VirtualBox. I've used all of them
under Fedora with both Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs and even migrated
the same VM from one to another. Currently I'm using QEMU/KVM because
(depending on your motherboard and with a certain amount of fiddling)
it can pass through a second graphics card and let me run Windows games
at full speed.
poc
9:04 a.m.
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:01:58AM +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. Qemu-kvm, the native virtualization system used in Fedora can
run vmware disk images. Or, better, you can convert them to qcow2
images, which is the best native format. Like this:
kvm-img convert -O qcow2 mywindowsvm.vmdk mywindowsvm.qcow2
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
10:23 a.m.
On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 10:04 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:01:58AM +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. Qemu-kvm, the native virtualization system used in Fedora can
run vmware disk images. Or, better, you can convert them to qcow2
images, which is the best native format. Like this:
kvm-img convert -O qcow2 mywindowsvm.vmdk mywindowsvm.qcow2
That should be qemu-img, not kvm-img. The QCOW2 format is good for
things like snapshots, but sometimes a raw image can be faster. it
depends on your application.
poc
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