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).
I guess you should use proxmox at this point 🤣
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Hey I get this reference.
There are many many many insane people who are running no virtual machines at all.
linux users are sane?
Yes, but usually they’d have a more robust VM management system to stay sane for long.
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.
not even sure distro tube has this many lmao
Why would anybody need an OS other than the bottom one?
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!
On the joke, define “sane”. 😬
On a serious note, I think there are valid reasons to have several VMs other than “I was bored”. In my case, for example, I have a total of 7 VMs, where 2 are miscellaneous systems to test things out, 2 are for stuff that I can’t normally run on Linux, 2 are offline VMs for language dictionaries, and 1 is a BlissOS VM with Google programs in case I can’t/don’t want to use my phone.
Yes but most of them are off lol
You can say: “I use Arch, Fedora, Windows, MacOS, Gentoo, LFS, Debian, PopOS, and more, btw.”
I run a different LXC on Proxmox for every service, so it’s a bunch. Probably a better way to do it since most of those just run a docker container inside them.
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Looks normal for testing stuff. I have 5ish in my desktop hypervisor.
Yeah.
My home server runs that many, but it’s a monster dual xeon.
The freebsd instances have a ton of jails, the Linux vms have a ton of lxc and docker containers.
It’s how you run many services without losing your mind.
