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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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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Libvirt/qemu with either virt-manager or cockpit to control them. Alternatively there are various wrapper projects for qemu that hide the complex command line from you.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Learn the command line. Embrace the command line.

And thank you I’ll check them out when I finally switch back

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Oh I don't mind it too much but I have a rich shell history 😀

Certainly when using the newer options things are more consistent easy to follow. However it's reputation for complexity isn't underserved because Qemu is very flexible in what it can do.