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For this use case would it then be faster to simply download a new VM image each time you needed Windows? That is to say if Microsoft creates images with all th
by NeoTar 4y ago
For this use case would it then be faster to simply download a new VM image each time you needed Windows? That is to say if Microsoft creates images with all the required patched applied?
- jiggawatts 4y agoMicrosoft does. Unfortunately the VHDs are fairly big to download, and the ISOs are infrequently updated. For local development, I can install Windows in under 2 minutes on a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD in a virtual machine from an ISO image. Patching it takes longer, about 5 minutes, but I generally do other things while that occurs in the background. These days I find the most convenient method to get the "latest" fully-patched version of Windows in a VM is to spin one up in a public cloud. Both Azure and AWS have sufficient free tiers to make this perfectly viable for most developers doing testing or whatever. I just tested Azure's deployment time, and it's about 2 minutes to create an up-to-date VM from scratch.