Question About Virtual Machine under Linux for work (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by TheFonz@lemmy.world to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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Hi,

I'm considering transitioning completely to Linux for my main workstation. However, due to the nature of my work I rely extensively on a few Autodesk products (namely AutoCAD, Revit) as well as Ms OneDrive to coordinate with clients. I did some research and these applications are not available natively and can't run through Wine. So I was thinking setting up a virtual machine with a windows image in order to run these two programs. They don't need extensive GPU. I was wondering if there are any obstacles / issues I should be aware if I chose to go this route? Thanks!

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Be careful with some of this expensive commercial crap. I use a piece of software which does not work if it even remotely thinks it is in a virtual environment due to an overzealous license manager.

It will be banished on a single purpose windows laptop, so I can finally reinstall the desk machine with Linux single boot.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks. I'm debating between using a second tower with a KVM switch adjacent. Seems less hassle but I'd prefer to have a vm and have everything locally.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That's what i would prefer, too, but their license manager is rather evil.

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