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

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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 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.

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

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On 5/9/22 11:54, David Christensen wrote:

Resizing and moving a Debian instance from a 500 GB drive to a 250 GB
drive requires a lot of expertise.


Maybe I'm misremembering. But doesn't clonezilla or using partclone 
 directly accomplish this? i'm sure i've used it 
to do exactly this. But it was years ago.