On 12/2/18 6:13 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: > I see all of this and wonder if you have given thought to VMWare Player, > for personal use it is > free, I use it all of the time when I cannot get something to run under > Wine, it sees the USB > stuff quite well. > > I have not had issues with it seeing devices. I use it to program radios, I > am running Win 10 > on a Ubuntu Mate 18.04 host. The radios look like serial USB devices to the > OS. Most of them > work just fine under wine, but one which seems the program is all buggered > up and even a > trick to run on Windows. Oh, I also use it for some Garmin stuff that will > not work on Wine. > Garmin should be ashamed, they sure use Linux behind the GPS screens on > their products > but cannot come up with a decent piece of software for Linux to talk to > their products. > > Here is a bit from them about running workstation (player is WS without the > license) under > Slack: > https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/113 > >
Chuck, It all depends on one's linux zealotry and personal preferences. qemu - fully open source Virtualbox - partially open source (uses qemu code in places) VMWare - fully proprietary. qemu uses KVM modules already present in the Linux kernel. VB and VMware have their own mystery binaries. The link you posted has some factual errors. Slackware uses a BSD style init system, which is NOT "unusual" and is also fully compatible with System V init scripts. See also http://www.slackware.com/config/init.php Secondly, the statement "Keep in mind that Slackware is not an explicitly supported distribution, mostly because of its unusual file layout." bespeaks of a great deal of ignorance regarding Linux file systems and layouts. I personally prefer qemu (fewer extra dependencies but harder CLI configuration), with Virtualbox as a second choice (nice gui). -Ed
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