BlueFin - Installing Resilio Sync, VMware Workstation, CrossoverCros

Hello everyone,

Framework 13 (12th gen) user here. I love Bluefin and the vision it has for the future of Linux. I do however have some what of the learning curve I am still working to get over.

Basically there are 2 pieces of software that I need and I don’t see how I can run them containerized.

Resilio Sync (peer to peer dropbox like clone, not dependent on a central server) - As we don’t seem to have systemd access for the host, I’m curious how I can set this up, such that its web GUI would be accessible from localhost:8888, and that it would be able to do the file synchronization as needed.

VMware Workstation 17 Pro - The issue here is that while I can install it in a Bazitte distrobox, I am not able to install the Bluefin kernel header files. (This is because This is required so that hypervisor functionality can be added to the kernel. Is there a way to do this on Bluefin? What Distrobox based Linux distro can I use that shares the same current kernel headers with Bluefin? Fedora?

Crossover - This will install in a distrobox container, BUT it is not able to pull down the individual packages it needs for the bottles that it creates to run Windows software. IE: dnf commands fail.

Got this sorted. Was able to find a Fedora 39 distrobox that worked.

I’m working on being able to use Workstation with it as well.

Still if you have any tips please let me know.

You should be able to control all the systemd-related things through /etc. So I don’t see any problem here.

Indeed, I was able to get it working. Now just trying to get Workstation and Crossover working.

So I have tried using several distros in distrobox with and without init present. I can’t get Crossover or Workstation to work.

I saw on a post from 2020 that someone running silverblue was able to get Crossover working in a toolbox they just pre-installed wine on, but that doesn’t seem to work for me either.

Really wondering if someone else using this has any luck with this kind of thing?

I haven’t tried wine or crossover on Bluefin yet, but what are some of the symptoms that you see when you try Windows software?

None, I am lazy and only try to install Windows software on Linux via Crossover. It just makes the whole process automatic and easy. However, I just can’t get it installed properly on Bluefin.

Workstation is a very similar story.