Hi folks
Just a little trick if your HOST VM program allows booting from a USB device.
If you've made say 3 physical Windows2Go type systems on 3 different external SSD's / HDD's -- you can (assuming you've got enough storage space and CPU power) run them all concurrently --- simply define 3 VM's and attach the USB devices as physical USB's and then in the appropriate VM just set the boot to choose the USB device. Allocate max RAM for each VM sensibly too.
I've a 64GB RAM machine with 2 physical processors in it (16 threads) so no problem there.
Watch out though for computer names as having non unique computer names will confuse your LAN.
These days with modern CPU's and hardware you should easily be able to manage running several VM's concurrently !!
Check also licensing -- if the systems are identical then they will all be active but the EULA does actually state you are only licensed to run 1 version of windows per machine -- thats a matter for you -- I doubt whether Ms would bother with HOME users experimenting a little -- what they don't want is 500 corporate users running on one version of Windows (not server) !!! etc.
Note some physical hardware might need to be dedicated to a specific machine but a whole slew of stuff is easily "shareable", Experimentation is great fun if you've time and the hardware to do it.
Cheers
jimbo
Just a little trick if your HOST VM program allows booting from a USB device.
If you've made say 3 physical Windows2Go type systems on 3 different external SSD's / HDD's -- you can (assuming you've got enough storage space and CPU power) run them all concurrently --- simply define 3 VM's and attach the USB devices as physical USB's and then in the appropriate VM just set the boot to choose the USB device. Allocate max RAM for each VM sensibly too.
I've a 64GB RAM machine with 2 physical processors in it (16 threads) so no problem there.
Watch out though for computer names as having non unique computer names will confuse your LAN.
These days with modern CPU's and hardware you should easily be able to manage running several VM's concurrently !!
Check also licensing -- if the systems are identical then they will all be active but the EULA does actually state you are only licensed to run 1 version of windows per machine -- thats a matter for you -- I doubt whether Ms would bother with HOME users experimenting a little -- what they don't want is 500 corporate users running on one version of Windows (not server) !!! etc.
Note some physical hardware might need to be dedicated to a specific machine but a whole slew of stuff is easily "shareable", Experimentation is great fun if you've time and the hardware to do it.
Cheers
jimbo
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