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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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[–] nezach@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 6 days ago (3 children)

1000167081

[–] tuck182@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

*sane

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

*lame

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

*some

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 23 points 5 days ago

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

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess you should use proxmox at this point 🤣

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Honestly they really should

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I mean is there any really reason though, they both run on the same subsystem and they aren’t doing anything crazy

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 16 points 5 days ago

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

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 3 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.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 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

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 3 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.

[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mutahar please log in to your main account

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 4 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.

[–] polle@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds nice, how useable is it?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

Is this like opening tons of browser tabs?

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

linux users are sane?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Users are sane?

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

sane?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

not even sure distro tube has this many lmao

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 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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[–] cousinofjah@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yes but most of them are off lol

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

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

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hell to update them regularly 👀

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

It's only insane if you have them all running at once.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The biggest reason why I don't want maintain so many Vms is, because all the maintenance and updates that involve doing so.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 5 days ago

I mean, people collect all sorts of weird shit

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not VMs but I have way more docker containers. I run most things as containers which keeps the base OS nice and clean and free from dependency hell.

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