Why are you expecting stability when the host OS you are using is betaware? Use CentOS as your host OS and you might get better results.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA <dba@propaas.com> wrote:
Hi All;


I'm running Fedora 25 on a laptop with 16GB of ram. I'm frustrated with the VMware workstation reliably breaking every 2 to 3 kernel updates and sometimes with no reasonable fix in sight for some time. Not the end of the world and I get the reasons behind it, however I wonder if KVM might be a better plan. I used KVM many years ago and it was not quite as reliable & easy to work with as I needed.  I assume it's gotten better?

Questions:

- does anyone have experiences good and bad with KVM? Any gotcha's or common issues I should be aware of?

- Anyone have experience with both KVM and VMware? opinions on which is better, more stable, etc?

- Is is easy / possible to convert a VMware workstation VM to a KVM?

- With VMware I get the vmnet network and I don't have to do anything other than select nat, bridged, etc to get networking in place for a VM, even if I want to access te VM directly from another machine (i.e. not the local only network). Is this true with KVM as well?

- If I decide later to remove it does it remove cleanly? I dislike the vmnet & other bits VMware leaves around even after an uninstall


Thanks in advance..


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