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As a long term VMware Workstation user with a Linux host, to run Windows VMs, what is the alternative? This is for professional use.
by Loic 2y ago
As a long term VMware Workstation user with a Linux host, to run Windows VMs, what is the alternative? This is for professional use.
- anonym29 2y agoOut of curiosity, what specifically does VMware Workstation enable you to do, that Virtualbox doesn't?
- cfn 2y agoI don't know if this is still true of Virtualbox but VMWare Player supports USB devices such as payment processors and others and Virtualbox doesn't (or didn't when I tried it).
- vladvasiliu 2y agoKVM works fine for my admittedly limited needs.
- aragilar 2y agoFor work we're looking at proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/ https://www.proxmox.com/en/).
- omgtehlion 2y agoLinux to windows on a single (or a handful of) host? Why not just libvirt (KVM and qemu) then?
- cfn 2y agoI also have a Linux host with Windows VMs running VMWare and KVM/qemu didn't work for me because the VMs don't capture Alt-Tab and other combinations. This is a major annoyance when doing development on the VMs. There were other small things that made me go back to VMware but I can't recall exactly what they were.
- olavgg 2y agoI guess you are not logging into the VM using a remote desktop client? But using the the spice client? One of my favourite alternatives is using Steam Remote Play, you get the low latency, works for games at the cost of much higher bandwidth. But for a home environment this is fine.
- cfn 2y agoNever used the Steam Remote Play but all the other RDP clients in linux have been lacking in one way or the other. I'll have a look, thanks.
- Loic 2y agoI started using VMware more than 10 years ago because of the good USB support for license dongles and pki stuff. I am using Windows as a development machine. I must admit that the license was cheap, it worked, so I didn't took the time to explore alternatives. But for what I understood, my use case doesn't exist anymore. You cannot buy a single pro license anymore. So, the day I upgrade my system, I may be forced to switch to another solution.
- wkat4242 2y agoKVM is fine. Virsh or virt-manager to manage it. No issues with compiling kernel modules either. I wouldn't look at virtualbox. It's a good product but oracle is just as bad a company as broadcom.
- raverbashing 2y agoVirtualbox or QEMU+KVM Depends on what you need exactly