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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.<p>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.
Same. It's quite remarkable. Two other things Claude and I have done. I have a spare workstation running proxmox in my garage. Claude can now create, snapshot, delete, extend, start, and restart vms. It's been great. I also have skills that allow it to spin up spot instances when I need to test things that rely on hardware I don't have like certain Nvidia gpus or 100gb networking. What a time to be alive.
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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?
It depends what you need to run. There exist a number of Windows images which can be run without any paid license requirements for test and validation IIRC.<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/validation-os-overview?view=windows-11" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...</a><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/factoryos/?view=windows-11" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...</a>
it depends on where you are running it. If using a cloud provider, license is typically built into hourly price.
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.
Doesn't Windows do some drama if its not activated and has been running without a license for more than 48h or similar?<p>I don't use windows but have to run windows 11 VM to access special devices. I don't want to bother with licenses, although I have them, and creating a new incus QEMU VM from scratch everytime from an ISO takes ~5m, freeing me up from worrying about all the activation and license drama.<p>If the activation and license setup was easy/automated in QEMU, I would imagine snapshots would be way easier. I would prefer not needing to connect to the internet.
> Doesn't Windows do some drama if its not activated and has been running without a license for more than 48h or similar<p>Your info might be like decades out of date, since windows 10 it's just been an overlay and locking out some appearance customizations (you can still set them via other means though).
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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.
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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