Gregory's ServerI'm hoping to avoid running VMWare Fusion or Parallels or similar on my laptop because I'm a bit low on disk space at the moment
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  @slightlyoff oh that's different from "Azure Virtual Machines", this might be what I want! Not sure why it thinks I'm called "allison", or what a "host pool" is @slightlyoff I think I'm too much of a coward to risk clicking through this thing, I'm going to dig out an external SSD and try VirtualBox locally instead! @simon AVD is the "right" answer, AFAICT. It's what we (Edge) use for remote development and fast bring-up for new Chromium/Edgium instances, and the machines can be super beefy if you need that. No idea what the admin/acquisition story is like, but it's a cromulent answer if it meets your needs. @simon @slightlyoff UTM, which is based on qemu, may be a smoother experience than VirtualBox at this point. @simon You are correct (in that Windows Server is rarely used on developer machines, and GitHub runners have a ton of nonstandard stuff installed)  @simon if it wasn’t for the disk space issue, would this help? https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/ Microsoft makes Win11 images available for testing purposes—VirtualBox and VMWare etc. @simon Do you perchance have an external USB 3.2 gen 2 drive? Like a Samsung T7 SSD with USB-C? Those runs almost as fast as internal storage so you can install Fusion (now free) and put Windows on that drive. @simon I have an Intel Mini 2019 that I run Plex on and have 2 5TB platter drives attached for the media libraries and transfer speeds a very fast. I use T7s for backups and those are even faster. |
I've been trying to figure things out by SSHing into a "windows-latest" runner in GitHub Actions, but I think that's running a highly customized Windows Server instance which probably isn't a good reflection of what a regular developer would be using on their own machine