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There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT? (startrek.website)
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Half of these exist because I was bored once.

The Windows 10 and MacOS ones are GPU passthrough enabled and what I occasionally use if I have to use a Windows or Mac application. Windows 7 is also GPU enabled, but is more a nostalgia thing than anything.

I think my PopOS VM was originally installed for fun, but I used it along with my Arch Linux, Debian 12 and Testing (I run Testing on host, but I wanted a fresh environment and was too lazy to spin up a Docker or chroot), Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora to test various software builds and bugs, as I don't like touching normal Ubuntu unless I must.

The Windows Server 2022 one is one I recently spun up to mess with Windows Docker Containers (I have to port an app to Windows, and was looking at that for CI). That all become moot when I found out Github's CI doesn't support Windows Docker containers despite supporting Windows runners (The organization I'm doing it for uses Github, so I have to use it).

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[–] ikidd 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting enough, there is a project that I've found that runs Windows in a Docker container as a VM.

https://github.com/dockur/windows

I run a Windows 10 LTSC that way to run things like Blue Iris for my security cameras, and some stuff to track my solar installation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds nice, how useable is it?

[–] ikidd 2 points 6 days ago

runs Blue Iris and I can rdp into it over a cellular modem fine. And its running on an ancient i3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

MacOS 15 on proxmox ? How do you make the iso exactly ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think this VM is still on Sonoma, actually. I still need to upgrade.

I can't remember exactly what I did to get an installer image, but there's a million shell scripts online for downloading macOS installer images. For booting it, I use this premade OpenCore for KVM/Proxmox. I have to check if I made other modifications (I run on an AMD CPU), but I think I mainly just had to set the serial and model - I personally used a 2019 Mac Pro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I downloaded it, but just couldn't figure out how to turn it into a bootable installer ISO without an already working macos instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I could be totally delusional, but I think it's just something like dd if=whatchamacallit.dmg of=whatchamacallit.img. I think you can get a net install image through macrecovery, which is a utility included with OpenCore packages.

[–] cousinofjah 2 points 6 days ago

Yes but most of them are off lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

not even sure distro tube has this many lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Me and my multiple personalities taking turns driving this sinking boat of a life.

[–] glitch1985 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why would anybody need an OS other than the bottom one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I think the answer is obvious. There are so many better alternatives available today. Some examples include:

  • Windows ME
  • Glorious Leader's Red Star OS
  • Temple OS
  • Don't use an operating system - sacrifice all your your time to studying the ways of the mighty Zarthadonatoxator instead. All hail Zarthadonatoxator! Zarthadonatoxator is the only true way!
[–] Heavybell 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had a VM but somehow the virtual drive got corrupted? And it wouldn't let me install, update or uninstall VC++ runtime as a result. I'm gonna try again later, but it's a worrying start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That just sounds like classic Winsanity right there, not a hard drive issue.

[–] Heavybell 1 points 6 days ago

I've had another try, this time I set chattr +C on the image directory just in case my using btrfs was causing issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I could get vbox to work* on my laptop or find the drive to learn QEMU, then I would have plenty on there. For now I'm just stuck with plenty on my desktop running win10.

*I have installed it a few times on my Debian based distro, but I swear every time I do nothing to it and it destroys itself. Works fine one day, then the next I turn on my laptop, after the only changes being that I created and ran a VM and it decided to hate me and not even boot the program. I think I'm just cursed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What about Virt Manager GUI, which is what I use here? It's a frontend for QEMU and it's not that difficult, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'll have to look into it because I'd love to have some VMs on my laptop since it way outperforms my desktop specs wise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For windows I either use a mingw toolchain from mxe.cc or just run the msvc compiler in wine, works great for standard C and C++ at least, even when you use Qt or other third party libraries.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

*lame

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

*some

[–] tuck182 13 points 1 week ago

*sane

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess you should use proxmox at this point 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

There are many many many insane people who are running no virtual machines at all.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mutahar please log in to your main account

[–] Anarchistcowboy 1 points 6 days ago

Hey I get this reference.

[–] tdawg 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

linux users are sane?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

With that many Windows (gasp) ones, no... I'm afraid you are not

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I have about twice this many VMs and about this many running at any given time.

I use Qubes btw

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yes, but usually they'd have a more robust VM management system to stay sane for long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell to update them regularly 👀

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I think you have a problem, there needs to be more to be normal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Is this like opening tons of browser tabs?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I mean, people collect all sorts of weird shit

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