There are servers with powerful gpu, on them we render scenes. OS ubuntu 14.04. We used to work with a blender, that is, we received a .blend file from designers, then threw it on a server and started rendering. The team that did it before:

blender scene.blend --engine CYCLES -t 0 -b --render-output //results/

Now designers have moved to 3d max. What actions are needed to also after receiving the .max files (honestly I don’t know what they will throw off now) to start rendering?
I read that there seems to be no 3d max for tench. Reinstall the OS can not. Is there a container docker for these tasks? Or maybe other ways to start rendering?

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    I'm afraid the task is hardly solved without reinstalling the OS. Docker is no good because it is only for Linux. Theoretically, you can try to run gpu into a virtual machine with Windows, but I'm not sure - andreymal
  • There was a certain MaxToBlender . Ask to export. - Alexander Prokoshev
  • If you have Max running under Wine, you can do the necessary docker. - gbg

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Picking up the installation of Autodesk products since 2012 and did not see 3Ds Max under Linux. Maya.rpm - yes. Max is not. Official system requirements page :

Operating System Microsoft® Windows® 7 (SP1), Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 Professional operating system