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VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Jestzer@lemmy.world 114 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (34 children)

This is another good reminder to not use VMware nor VirtualBox for any reason.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

It's free and works for me, why should I stop using Virtualbox?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

and what to use instead? run qemu commands and all the preparation by hand?

there's proxmox, but that's not a desktop solution.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 3 months ago

Virt-manager works ok

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