Fedora meets RHEL: gratis, self-supported RHEL VMs
As we enter the final freeze before the Fedora 27 Workstation release, I’d like to highlight a new feature that will hopefully make Fedora more attractive for developers. Last month, I had written about our experiments to make it easier to consume gratis, self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations from Fedora Workstation. I am happy to report that this is now a reality.
Starting from Fedora 27 Workstation, you’ll be able to install an infinite number of RHEL 7.x virtual machines right from inside GNOME Boxes. All you need is an account on developers.redhat.com, and it will automatically set up a RHEL virtual machine that’s entitled to the RHEL Developer Suite subscription.
Thanks to Felipe Borges for a seemingly endless round of patch reviews, and Fabiano and Victor for occasionally lending us their brain.
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Sweet work guys!
jimmac
20 October, 2017 at 17:54
Always a pleasure when you like it. 🙂
Debarshi Ray
20 October, 2017 at 19:22
As someone who codes using Red Hat technologies, I am happy to see the deepening connection between Fedora and Red Hat Developers. I look forward to more synergies going forward :).
adila01
20 October, 2017 at 18:56
Awesome, but…. wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect a similar set up for CentOS?
duvjones
21 October, 2017 at 01:50
You can already download CentOS, or for that matter a lot of other distributions, by searching for them through the “Enter URL” option. It turns out that Felipe is trying to make that experience even better.
Debarshi Ray
21 October, 2017 at 08:48
Yes, there you go! https://blogs.gnome.org/felipeborges/boxes-downloadable-oses/
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