You are welcome, glad that I could help.
Yes, you are right that filesystem compatibility may be an issue. In Windows, no FAT can be recommended because they are slow or very slow, unreliable and don't perhaps support the filesize that you need. In Windows, there is only NTFS, which you need to test. In theory, there might be other, 3rd party supported filesystems, but I have never relied on them so much that I would have tested them.
I'm not familiar with all the Apple filesystems and is there a FS where interoperability works.
If nothing else works - the usual solution to this is a laptop that you use both in the office and at work. A decent laptop, which allows to run anything, is under 2000 euros - you know from above what is the brand and model that I would suggest. There's lots of discussion and a recent thread of mine - based on those, I wouldn't take AMD-based model for Windows 11 & VMware.
Now that you asked about a possibility to run virtual computers over network, there are of course professional solutions to that - like VMware Horizon. These are corporate-wide solutions, price-wise and otherwise, but work really well.
Original Message:
Sent: Feb 12, 2025 07:43 AM
From: eren coban
Subject: possible cloud solution for personal users
cant thank you enough you are right carrying external disk would be more convienent for sure.But as you said my home computer is windows and my laptop is apple arm so there might be some compitability issues but ill search into that.Thank you so much
Original Message:
Sent: Feb 12, 2025 05:13 AM
From: RaSystemlord
Subject: possible cloud solution for personal users
I suppose there are cloud solutions, but I'm not familiar with them - if Free ones exist or not?
However, this problem can easily be solved by running the VMs ALWAYS from an external disk. I'm doing that all the time (during last year I have had around 30 of them, at the minimum). You just need to use a reliable external disk (for the enclosure for instance Asus ROG STRIX Arion/TUF Gaming, equipped with some SSD disk, like Kingston). The decent and compatible disks are SSD nVME M.2 PCIe 4.0 (NOT SATA) (Kingston cheap model is good and better ones don't make much difference). USB 3.2 Gen 2 is for the enclosure. There are many others but some of them are sub-standard choices.
If not obvious, the workstation and home computer must be on the level of USB 3.2 to get the best speed. Also the cable must be the right one - Arion and TUF Gaming come with proper ones. These standards are improving all the time, like PCIe 5.0 and USB 4, but you can use the above-mentioned and get good performance.
So, you only need to transfer a small enclosure in your shirt pocket. TUF Gaming choice does not break no matter what you do. 4 TB disks are rather affordable and probably can host your 10 VMs. If not, there are bigger ones where the price per MB can be higher, but that is changing fast.
If you have Windows on the other end and Linux on the other end, you may have an issue with the filesystem. It WAS a major issue in 2021 - I haven't tried since that time, but I suggest to test first how VM runs from a NTFS file system on Linux (which is obviously something that needs to work). Before those years, I used this kind of interoperability all the time.
Original Message:
Sent: Feb 11, 2025 10:10 AM
From: eren coban
Subject: possible cloud solution for personal users
I am new about "virtual machines" and asking for any ideas basically.
Problem is i am new into this virtual machine tech and working on some projects at my home desktop pc but i need to go another city for 1-2weeks.I want to access my current machines from another city and i dont want to drag all from google drive or etc bc there is almost 10 machines.Is there any solutions for that like maybe i can connect my workstation to some cloud service and access it from another location all the time.I want my machines in sync.