alt Hacker NewsRunning Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs
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We used several different LLM's and our own skills to build out some novel approaches to document creation with new workflows using QEMU in Linux after upgrading our desktops to Ubuntu from Windows 11.
what is the minimum license that I would need to do this legally, with just one or two VMs?
This is super slow solution I did build similar solution based on dockur. And it was sooo slow. Just use windows docker containers on windows server. With some hacks you can run any gui application.
We’ve been providing a similar approach with disposable VMs and emulators/simulators since 2014 at TestingBot. We run our own single-use QEMU VMs with Windows and Linux.
Why not use snapshots/save states so the VMs start back up right away? This is what I do with QEMU.
Why is the comments from the OP marked as flagged or dead at the bottom?
What's the licensing on Windows 11 these days? Can an individual still run an unregistered Windows 11 installation basically forever with only minor restrictions?
Nothing new here. VM + WebRTC + warm pool to absorb boot time
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Not to dismiss this, but when I was working on a problem on Windows recently my LLM (6.1 Sol / oh-my-pi) ended up doing the same thing, although it used Qemu and snapshots to accomplish that.
Eventually it got to a point it could iterate very quickly and was really only constrained by total system RAM which meant a dozen at most copies could be running simultaneously.