On 31.07.2017 13:15, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Running external things like VMWare Workstation (or other 3rd party > custom compiled apps) is exactly what enterprise distros like RHEL, > CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, SUSE SLES are designed for .. running things already > compiled for a long period of time while providing security updates. yes, but impossible to stay up-to-date forever, as the upgrade e.g. from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 is not supported ... > If Windows is what you are trying to run, doing that on KVM works fine > and the VMs are (usually :D) able to run as is when upgrading. to other > versions. the goal would have been, to have a Linux as my desktop instead of Windows one day ... my virtual machines are not just Windows, also some ancient things ...