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    Curious about VMs - what you think of my system setup?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by flyboynm, Feb 26, 2019.

  1. flyboynm

    flyboynm Notebook Consultant

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    I am curious as to what you think of the way I have my computer setup.

    It is a Clevo-based laptop with an i-7 desktop (k code) CPU, 64 GB of RAM, 1080 video, a 512 GB Samsung 970 Pro and 2x 2TB Firecuda drives for data.

    I boot into Windows 10 but that isn't the OS that is used for the system. It boots automatically into a Windows 10 Pro VM. In that VM, I have Virtualbox installed with VMs for various other OSs - Mac OSX (Mojave and High Sierra), Linux (Mint, RHEL and Ubuntu) and Windows (Server 2012R2, 2016R2 and 2019).

    The base OS has Deep Freeze installed on it so nothing can touch the host OS that a reboot cannot remove (unless i unlock the system to do the update), and the Windows 10 VM can get virus infested all it wants and all I have to do is a rollback and I am safe. Same with the VMs.

    There is enough hardware on my system to be able to run everything fine without performance issues. Can you think of anything that I might want to do with my system to make it more capable?
     
    flyboynm, Feb 26, 2019
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    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    pete962 Notebook Evangelist

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    And if somebody ask you why, tell them "because I can".
     
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    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    And the point of this exercise is to do what? Just running VM for running sack doesn't do much.

    I run Windows 10x64 Pro 1803 on my and 6 of my families computer and have no virus issue.
     
    StormJumper, Mar 5, 2019
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