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
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_infrastructur...
http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2016/02/25/getting-started-with-the-red-hat-conta...
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?
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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
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
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." Walter.H@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?
On 02.06.2017 15:27, InvalidPath wrote:
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." <Walter.H@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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org>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
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.
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.
On Jun 2, 2017 8:01 AM, "Walter H." Walter.H@mathemainzel.info wrote:
On 02.06.2017 15:27, InvalidPath wrote:
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." Walter.H@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.
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@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 2, 2017 6:06 AM, "Walter H." Walter.H@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
users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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?
users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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
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
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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