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Pre-canned VM Windows 11 development environment<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Did you know that Microsoft provides free virtual machine images of the latest version of Windows – with developer tools, SDK’s, and samples all pre-installed? Microsoft provide regularly updated virtual machine images for<\/a> VMWare, Hyper-V<\/a>, VirtualBox, and Parallels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few important points. The images are not activated and cannot be activated – even with a valid product key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about Linux?<\/h3>\n\n\n
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If you want to install and run a Linux distro (Ubuntu for example<\/a>), you can use Virtualbox\/VMWare or the built in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)<\/a>. With WSL, you get a Linux command prompt mounted on your local Windows filesystem and can launch X-windows apps that pop up on your Windows desktop in separate windows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experience is kind of a weird mash-up of Windows and Linux on the same system at the same time. Kind of like a better\/embedded version of cygwin<\/a>. It’s not as contained as a virtual machine host app like Virtualbox\/VMWare that keeps all your windows in the virtual machine host app; but this might be enough for most people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t done any experiments, but would love to test out some OpenGL\/Vulkan apps to see if you get full GPU accelerated rendering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pre-canned VM Windows 11 development environment Did you know that Microsoft provides free virtual machine images of the latest version of Windows – with developer tools, SDK’s, and samples all pre-installed? Microsoft provide regularly updated virtual machine images for VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Parallels. A few important points. The images are not activated and cannot be activated – even with a valid product key. What about Linux? If you want to install and run a Linux distro (Ubuntu for example),…<\/p>\n

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