I've never done it but I see no reason why not. A virtual machine is practically indistinguishable from a physical machine to almost any software running on it. Installing VMWare on a trial basis won't cost you anything and setting up a virtual machine is easy so all you'd need to invest is a little of your time to find out if it will work.

Russ Suter

3/3/2016

@Andrew,

You've had experience with this? Why would VMWare not run x-terms?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

3/3/2016

you cannot run X-term to the Hypervisor, e.g. direct to ESXi or direct to VMware Workstation!

anything a physical computer can run, can run in a VM!

and for everybody in the post, VMware is a company, not a product!

VMware

VMware, a software company founded in 1998, was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies. VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture. Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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