# Mender in non-embedded linux environment

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-in-non-embedded-linux-environment/1786>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-in-non-embedded-linux-environment/1786 "2020-04-14T16:00:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![purunaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@purunaya](https://hub.mender.io/u/purunaya)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-in-non-embedded-linux-environment/1786/1 "2020-04-14T16:00:59Z")

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Hi All,

Going through the mender documentation, I am thinking of using it for updating our boxes that are client location. They are either VM/bare metal running Debian. Our image sizes are not huge (~2G). Looks like Mender already works with Grub. So I don’t see any issues, but just wondering if anyone has tried it any similar environment or any inputs from the community itself.

Thanks,  
Purush

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**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-in-non-embedded-linux-environment/1786/2 "2020-04-15T14:59:07Z")

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Hi @purunaya, welcome to Mender Hub.

We have run a few types of desktop systems with our mender-convert utility. Take a look here for one example: [QEMU, the FAST! processor emulator (Ubuntu)](https://hub.mender.io/t/qemu-the-fast-processor-emulator-ubuntu/1550/2)

We also have an open pull request to add Ubuntu 18 support officially on PC style platforms here: [https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert/pull/188](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert/pull/188)

Drew

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**Author:** ![purunaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@purunaya](https://hub.mender.io/u/purunaya)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-in-non-embedded-linux-environment/1786/3 "2020-04-16T00:01:53Z")

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I’ve got it working nicely for a setup with Debian. Just used genericx86-64 for device type. Will check these links out as well. Thanks!