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Alternative to VMWare (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by hddsx@lemmy.ca to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Is there a friendly alternative to VMWare/Virtualbox? I would move back to Virtualbox, but it's now owned by oracle

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[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Proxmox will do 90% of everything you need, coming from VMWare/EsXi. It can import and read your existing vmdks.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Looks a bit overkill, as I just use workstation pro. Do you have any familiarity with it to see if it’s easy to run a single VM?

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well it is a hypervisor like ESXI, so same concept. Running one vm would be simple, but yes; overkill. It is not the same level of virtualzation that Virtualbox is. For that, you could look into using Virt-manager if using a Linux based host.