Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 8/22/2022 2:41 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 21:39 stepore@gmail.com <stepore@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/17/22 19:35, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Tom Browder [2022-08-17 05:53:05] wrote:
> > > > I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be
> > reliable
> > > > enough to use with reasonable response (no games, just Office 360, IO
> > > > Drive, H&R Block, and such). I haven't kept up with the VM world but a
> > > > quick search shows VMware might be a good choice.
> > >
> > > Last I had to run a Windows VM I used kvm (aka Qemu) and that worked
> > > very nicely.  It's easy to install (it's in the Debian repositories),
> > > very featureful, and used for "real systems" (tho in my case I always
> > > used it very punctually to run some specific tool only available in
> > > Windows).
> >
> > Yep; same. Ran multiple windows vms in kvm (libvirt/qemu). Stable and
> > solid.
>
>
> So I will try Debian 11's packages "qemu-kvm" and "aqemu" and install
> Windows 10" as a test on my current main host, but only if I can remove all
> if I need to and if it will not interfere with my smooth running setup. Is
> that true?
>

Impossible to answer as we do not know what 'will not interfere with my
smooth running setup' implies.

If you go with Libvirt, you can remove everything if you so choose by
doing something like:

$ apt-get --autoremove purge libvirt


When you get the hang of it I'm pretty sure that you won't go back! :)

--
John Doe