Convert VMWare VM to Hyper-V

Kari said:

I use remote desktop to connect to my Linux virtual machines. No issues with sound.

Hi there

I think this box with the AMD graphics / sound GPU integrated with MOBO (Radeon) and using HDMI and sound through monitor has problem with Linux -- could never make this work even when booting Native Linux on this box. Windows though works 100%.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi there

I think the main problem with Sound on Linux via HYPER-V ls whether it runs at all on a Native installation -- I can't get it to work (in Native mode) anyway with built in Radeon GPU output via HDMI which could be a problem.

With VMWare the sound card is emulated so using a windows host the Linux VM sees an emulated creative labs es137 / sound blaster and it works fine -- listening to a Belgian classical music station on a Linux VM created by VMware. Centos 7 is the VM -- this is the exact same VM that I used to create the HYPER-V VM yesterday.




(booted up test machine with VMware running Host W10 pro X64 VM same VM as posted with HYPER-V -- this is the one I converted to HYPER-V which runs fine on that system apart from sound).

Could be on HYPER-V the audio out by HDMI is a problem -- the output I'm using is from the computer -->DVI-->HDMI adapter into monitor and Monitor sound out into a small Bose unit with 2 decent speakers -- hate garbage sound on any device !!

Anyway I'll see what Kari comes up with.

I'll have a go with a Windows VM on HYPER-V -- I've got enough licenses on a VL W8.1 system to get a few more W10 upgrades !!! or I can just image current machine and install new -- digital licenses I believe allow zillion W10 re-installs on same machine(s). I think in RDP you can specify sound either bring from Host or use sound from the remote computer in your RDP session.

I like the idea of Linux servers with RAID -- using Windows as a file server / media streamer etc just doesn't cut it IMO -- Windows is far more suited for creating things like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure -- e.g clients can log on to a common Windows workspace where apps like office etc are installed for use by the clients in say a work environment.

Cheers
jimbo

Kari said:

I use remote desktop to connect to my Linux virtual machines. No issues with sound.

I have never actually tried to connect via remote desktop to Linux VMs. I do not need GUI for tasks on my Linux my machine. However, I will definitely test it, thanks!

jrm said:

I have never actually tried to connect via remote desktop to Linux VMs. I do not need GUI for tasks on my Linux my machine. However, I will definitely test it, thanks!

Hi there
XRDP is fine -- sometimes having even a minimal GUI is good for testing -- I don't though have a GUI on the main NAS box I use for multi-media streaming, email and Internet gateway etc.

However if you host any Windows VM's on your Linux box having a GUI certainly makes setting them up easier -- I'm not the best typist and using things like vi for editing remind me of the days when I had my first ever PC years ago. !!!

Cheers
jimbo