quickgui VS vmware-host-modules

Absolutely. I run all kinds of things like that - k8s kubelet, docker, qemu, kvm. To manage them I tend to use Podman, virt-manager, and this less-well-known-but-still-useful script for qemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu for which someone wrote a front-end for: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui

FWIW, I got leary of Gnome Boxes (probably because I usually need to run a commercial OS like Windows) and found myself pretty happy with quickemu/quickgui - https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui

imo this is where it's at right now: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu There's even a flutter-based GUI (https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui), if that's your thing.

Quickemu along with the Quickgui frontend.

[quickemu] is excellent if you just need a quick way to install and test other OSs, it even has a GUI now for downloading/installing the OSs and basic management.

I would suggest instead, setting up a Ubuntu VM and using QuickEmu GitHub linkquickemu GitHub. And also the QuickGUI GitHub project. link. It's much simpler to setup VMs and is very efficient with resources.

I recommend trying it out via quickemu if you don't want to test it on bare-metal. Works fine for me for testing distro and creating VMs quickly even on Fedora (the dnf @virtualization meta-package seems to cover all of the requirements aside for virgl which I think is snap-only?).

I had to fix a well known issue with running VMware on Linux - compiling your own kernel modules. This isnt much of a problem for seasoned users but for others it might be a deal breaker. This repo will save you hours of searching google.

Ive found that I had to manually compile and install patched host modules from https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules in order for it to work.

I've had to run this after each kernel update (and reboot).

# From sabennett on VMWare Forum Second method (replace original tarballs): wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-16.2.1.tar.gz tar -xzf workstation-16.2.1.tar.gz cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-16.2.1 tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ vmware-modconfig --console --install-all In this case, last two commands require root privileges.

wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-16.2.4.tar.gz tar -xzf workstation-16.2.4.tar.gz cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-16.2.4 tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ sudo vmware-modconfig --console –install-all

I'm on the same boat - the current Kernel (5.19) doesn't support the VMware Workstation (same build as player) - I believe kernel 5.17 works. This git page has helped me out in the past https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules

wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-16.2.3.tar.gz