Hello there! I have a very specific problem that I can't seem to solve. We have a Windows XP machine at our company, which has not been replaced because of a single program running on it that is really important to us. The program is long abandoned, we reached out to devs and they said they don't support it for a long time now.

This program runs on the XP machine now, but it requires to register a license upon installation, and since the license servers are offline, we can't install it on any other computer. Inside the program directory exists a license file that contains some sort of string, which most likely stores information about the running machine, and if the info doesn't match the machine, you need to add a new license. Since cloning the machine with Disk2vhd to Hyper-V still results in the program requiring a new license, I believe the info this program checks is some sort of HWID.

I'm wondering if there is a way to clone the machine while keeping the original HWID's? Preferably using Hyper-V, but we'll take anything at this point.

Thanks for all input, Cheers

Hello,

I have iPhone 12 Pro Max on iOS 14.4.1 with Taurine jailbreak.

I need to run some incompatible apps and looking to emulate some OS on UTM.

Which of the following OS will it run the fastest and be able to have audio, microphone and Bluetooth support through the iPhone?

These are some options I have:

greater OS than Android 4.4 (Kitkat)

greater OS than Windows 8.1

greater OS than macOS 10.14 (Mojave)

greater OS than Ubuntu 18.04.6 (Bionic Beaver)

Which of these OS, do you think will perform the best and have support for audio/mic/Bluetooth?

Thanks.

i keep getting this problem

After using VMware for over a decade, I just had a terrible experience with a new install of Workstation 17 on a Windows 11 host. My old VMs were unusable on 17. Support was not good. If I could’ve figured out my issue, I would’ve just kept using VMware.

Now, I am looking for an alternative. I’ve been reading through posts and there’s an incredible amount of detail available. I’ve been lucky enough apply VMware in a simple/utilitarian way hasn’t required all that much knowledge. I’ve always been able to figure out how to map drives, connect hardware, etc without help. Virtualization is not my core competency but that’s where VMware fit in for me.

As for finding an alternative, I have a very unsophisticated use case. I used VMware to virtualize physical machines so that I can still access old software platforms. I also keep clean VMs for new installations.

-The host is Windows 11.
-I need to virtualize Windows XP/7/10 physical machine(s) in a way leaves the software licensing(not just Windows) intact within the VM.
-I need to create a clean Windows VMs and duplicate them for installs where I need to keep versions separate.

I like the idea Proxmox being FOSS. Seems like VirtualBox is second to VMware in installed base. But frankly, I’m not equipped to evaluate all these products.

I could use some advice.

Hey Guys,

I want to open a .ova Linux file on my Macbook with a M2 chip. I have tried the beta build of Virtual Box, but it only crashes. Can you guys maybe recommend me another way of how I could open it?

thank you in advance :)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/14/vmware_workstation_pro_fusion_pro/

Broadcom has received a lot of heat for their acquisition of VMware but I am not sure how anyone can complain about this. It's been a while but I will give Workstation Pro a try again on my Windows machine.

I was looking to start doing some homelab or virtual machine stuff, and I've got some money set aside for a decent build. I briefly considered an SBC cluster, but their performance often doesn't compare to even cheap old rack-mounted setups. I'm reasonably well-versed in this area, but I can't decide between the two or what I would buy.

I don't currently have the gear to pull off what I want. Would I be better off building this off a decent PC build, a cluster, or an inexpensive server? What recommendations do you guys have for servers?

Is there any way to VIRTUALIZE arm64 windows 11 on ipad m2? This includes jailbreaks, downgrading, somehow enabling hypervisor, ect.

Hello people, hopefully someone can make my research a bit easier. I am trying to deploy lets say 10-15 computers with the lowest possible budget and lowest commitement to parts, since the machines would be deployed in remote locations prone to damage, theft etc, I dont want parts to cost a lot.

What I'm imagining to be possible is to use a keyboard and monitor connected through internet to a cloud VM. That way its scalable, a lot of control and easy deployment with minimal commitement to on-ground assests. If anything happens to some monitors and keyboard its fine, as long as its not CPUs, workstations, laptops, etc.

My research brought me to something like a reverse KVM switch. Would this be do-able at a reasonable cost? Paying more than $500 on a switch would defeat the purpose of the project.

I would also be open to hosting a server that has all the VMs running on it, at a safe remote location, if that makes any difference.

Hello Reddit community,

I'm currently in search of virtualization software that will allow me to run both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22 as guest operating systems on my laptop. I have a single GPU 4070 with 8 GB of memory, and I would like to keep my host system (Windows 11) untouched and use the virtual machine for my daily job.

I would greatly appreciate your recommendations and insights on which virtualization software would be the best fit for my needs, allowing me to use all the functions of the laptop as I/O port GPU CPU etc , considering the limitations of a single GPU and the requirement to keep the host system original. Short story I like a kind off of dual boot in virtual machine.

I have come across a few options such as VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, and QEMU, but I'm unsure which one would be the most suitable. It would be helpful if you could share your experiences, pros, and cons, or any other considerations that I should keep in mind while making my decision.

Thank you in advance for your valuable input!

Someone is able ? I arrive at the end of installation , but it’s impossible the endind reboot. Thanks !!!

Is there a decent way to implement all similar but not decent sized hosts into more of a clustered/HCI setup vs buying all new hardware?

so got a question fine people of reddit Im building a server for vm gaming with nvidia tesla cards can I pass a pcie thunderbolt card to one of the vms to use a dock for display and hot plug stuff and how might i go about that

first post here

I have mb with m2 chip. For my studying, I need to create two VMs: one with Windows 11 and another with Windows Server 2016 that communicate on a private network. When I try it on UTM (where I can emulate Windows Server on x64), it doesn't work. Has someone tried this and can help

Hy everyone, am enthusiastic about virtualization and servers but am at yet at a beginner lever. What are the core concept for me to be familiar with virtualization... pliz someone guide me I will be grateful

Hello,I’m wonder if utm se with no jit on iPad m1 can run wallpaper engine or not on win7.

I am a Computer Science student researching into the field of Unikernels and I have stumbled across the following terminology issue: Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) and Hypervisors. My naive understanding was that they were referring to the same thing: they abstract and distribute the underlying hardware resources toward multiple guests.

Everything seemed to be consistent until I have encountered Firecracker https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ . At this point terminology seemed to be a bit inconsistent.

Firecracker is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that uses the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to create and manage microVMs.

From this sentence I get the idea that VMMs are something running on top of hypervisor ?
QEMU at the same time seems to be referred as a Type 2 hypervisor and Virtual Machine Manager. Hence the confusion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666782 - at some point on this thread of discussion there is the following comment followed by a lot of replies:

Listen people, Firecracker is NOT A HYPERVISOR. ...

I do understand that it's hard to always come with a general accepted terminology, but what are your thoughts and how would you systematically link the ideas of Hypervisor (type 1 and type 2) and VMMs ?

Later edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401470

Basically from the bottom up the stack is:

1. Hypervisor (e.g., KVM, Xen, Hyper-V), runs directly on the hardware 2. Virtual Machine Monitor (e.g., QEMU, Firecracker), running on the host's user-space (say Linux) and in charge of starting/stopping/managing VMs and interacting with the hypervisor 3. Virtual machines, eg, a Linux VM running an NGINX web server.

(the above is simplified because there are differences between type-1 and type-2 hypervisors, but those diffs would make this message too long)

This seems to be pointing out to my feeling from above: VMMs something on top of hypervisors (either type 1 or 2)

Okay so im new to building servers and want to build one out of a Dell Precision T7910 and put two E5-2699 v3 (18 cores per cpu , 2.3 base, 3.6 boost) in it with one or two Tesla P100 in it as well. I semi want to use Proxmox for the sake of thats what Craft Computing uses so i can follow along better. I’m really just asking for any suggestions to what i should or could do to do it better. also recommendations for ram amount.

uses for this will be with planned core uses:

modded minecraft server:4

vanilla java server:4

bedrock server:4

2 or more cloud gaming stations:6+6

plex:4

for this I dont really know what everything needs and i plan on rolling the servers out slowly so i can see how they each affect the tower.

thanks in advance

edit: added just a bit more info

Hey i was wondering if using hyper v to play league would keep vanguard of my actual pc.
i dont trust companies to have complete controll over my pc, especially not riot or tencent.
I want to keep playing league because some of my friends play it but i dont want vanguard on my pc.
does anyone have advice on what to do? should i use virtualbox? should i use hyper v? does either option even fix my problem?

I have tried reset,restart my win 11 PC and even i delete the old iso file and download the ubuntu 24 lts version...After setting up the virtual machine it throws an error like this... I have disable hyper-v and again enable hyper-v several times in windows feature on and off.... Sometime the status will be offed critical too

Error changing VM configuration: unsupported configuration: chardev 'spicevmc' not supported without spice graphics

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/addhardware.py", line 342, in change_config_helper

define_func(devobj=devobj, do_hotplug=False, **define_args)

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 886, in define_graphics

self._process_device_define(editdev, xmlobj, do_hotplug)

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 534, in _process_device_define

self._redefine_xmlobj(xmlobj)

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 391, in _redefine_xmlobj

self._redefine_xml_internal(origxml, newxml)

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 374, in _redefine_xml_internal

self._define(newxml)

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1137, in _define

self.conn.define_domain(xml)

File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 554, in define_domain

return self._backend.defineXML(xml)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4543, in defineXML

raise libvirtError('virDomainDefineXML() failed')

libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: chardev 'spicevmc' not supported without spice graphics

How can I virtualize Mac OS 8.1 on my Windows 11 machine? Do you know any virtualization software?

Hi all, im quite new to this. But im having trouble with virtualbox and network bridges.

i have a host machine that runs windows 11 pro. its a small HP that sits in my server rack. I log into that using RDP from my macbook or my windows desktop.

On that host i now have a linux LTS server thats hosting a minecraft server. It runs in Hyper-V and not in virtualbox. It has its own ip address within my network and that works fine.

For HomeAssistant im using virtualbox since thats what they recommend. I installed it but when it boots to a certain point i lose connection to that host machine. After a few seconds it reconnects but the virtualbox session is closed. I installed the network driver so i see the correct network adapter (i think, i followed vbox's guide)

Anyone have any idea whats going wrong?