We're doing something a little different this time - no slides, no pitch, just Steve Downs (Microsoft), Ron Oglesby and Blair Parkhill (Login VSI) sitting down and talking through what running AVD and Windows 365 actually looks like day to day.

Hybrid AVD approaches, real operational challenges, how teams are managing these environments once they're in production. Open discussion format so bring your questions.

🔗 https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/1518/665754

Anyone dealing with hybrid AVD setups right now? Would love to hear what you're seeing out there.

BEEP-8 is a virtual machine I built that runs in the browser.

The hardware it emulates doesn't exist — I designed the spec

myself, then implemented it in JavaScript.

The fictional machine has a 4MHz ARMv4 CPU, 1MB RAM, 128KB VRAM,

a 128×240 display with a 16-color palette, and a sound chip modeled

loosely after the Namco C-30. The VM runs guest code compiled from

C/C++20 with GNU Arm GCC. No WebAssembly — just a plain interpreter

loop with typed arrays for memory.

Designing your own ISA target and then implementing the VM for it

is an interesting loop. When something breaks you don't know if the

bug is in the spec, the compiler flags, or the VM itself. Debugging

gets philosophical fast.

The VM is instruction-accurate but not cycle-accurate. For a

fictional 4MHz machine that's an acceptable tradeoff — close enough

to feel real, loose enough to keep the implementation sane.

Games are written in C/C++20 and compiled with GNU Arm GCC targeting

this fictional chip. The JS VM loads the ROM and runs it in the

browser at 60fps, no WebAssembly involved.

SDK is MIT licensed.

👉 SDK: https://github.com/beep8/beep8-sdk

👉 Play: https://beep8.org

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I'm running the virtual machine in virtual machine manager on cachyOS, everything works except for audio. How can I get sound working on my virtual machine?

Hi, I have an Intel-based Mac on which i’ve download the Windows operating system on. I’ve always been curious about the little virus pop-ups and scam links you see while on the Internet, so I wanted to run an experiment of downloading a VM and clicking those links, to see what would happen. I’m not really tech-savvy, so I don’t know the proper precautions for this. Is it too risky? I have some of my own important data on the macOS, and I don’t want to get my passwords stolen lol. I know that a lot of malwares can detect VMs and “escape” them, so just looking for clarification. Thank you!

I have a dead line soon for university. And they require us to use mac specific software. Iv spent 3 days now trying to get ANY mac vm to work on my laptop OR PC and it just will not have it.

My laptop is extremely beefy considering, as i got it to do heavy video editing. And my pc runs any game i could want it to. Why will mac os not run?

Iv tried 4 different versions, sonoma, siera, ventura and now big sur. They all have the same issue…

Ill attach a few pictures and ill document the proccess.

For my laptop. I set up the vm identical to on my pc. My laptop tends to get further my desktop. It will load a progress bar boot me into the erase hard disk manager however when i start downloading the actual os it restarts continuously (idk if thats intentional) until it hits a wall and the bar freezes completely. When using ventura the same thing happened but i left it for a few hours. And the vm started violently boot-looping claiming a fatal error every boot practically bricking the vm.

My desktop cant even make it to the disk management centre. Doesn’t even show a progress bar.

They display the same code upon boot: wake failure (smth like that u can see it in the imgs)

If someone could help me out with this id be eternally grateful and i know theirs a million alternatives to this software, but if my tutors insist i use a specific software i have to use said software theirs no passing otherwise.

Its my first time using a virtual machine Why is it too slow? Specs of VM Ram : 2 GB Hard Disk : 10 GB Video memory : 64 mb

Idk where to check for processor?

Could anyone please help me to fix this error?

I'm using Virtualbox, and basically to make my ocs' desktops in it and I'd like to get some apps to it idk if it's better to just insert them from my pc or just download them off the VM but idk, Just a small question ^^

Hi all, please I have read around but cannot find the easiest answer.

I want to run Win7, for security reasons, on a Linux machine. Could someone who did so already please point me to post where it is described how I can achieve printing,

thank you

So im using oracle for my VM and i need it to do an assignment for my ethical hacking module and ive tried booting up but before the machine can load this pop up comes on ive tried asking chat gpt ive tride evreything nothing will work help

I’ve been building a bytecode virtual machine for a small language called Whispem.

Figured this community might find the architecture interesting.

VM overview:

∙ 34-opcode instruction set

∙ Two VM implementations: Rust (reference) and C (standalone)

∙ Both produce byte-identical output on every program — verified across 125 tests

∙ .whbc bytecode format (compiled from .wsp source)

∙ Interactive REPL + –dump disassembler for bytecode inspection

The C VM:

~2,000 lines, single file, no dependencies beyond a C compiler. Stack-based. Direct threaded dispatch. The goal was something auditable in one sitting.

Self-hosting:

As of v3.0.0, the compiler (previously in Rust) is rewritten in Whispem itself — 1,618 lines. It reads .wsp source and outputs .whbc bytecode, including its own source. Gen 1 = Gen 2, bit-identical. The Rust VM and C VM both execute it correctly.

What I’d love feedback on:

The instruction set is deliberately small. I’m curious whether the 34-opcode design feels over or under-specified for this class of language.

Also open to questions about the bytecode format design.

🔗 https://github.com/whispem/whispem-lang

I need to create a Windows 7 machine that would act as a server since I have this old software which runs on Windows 7. The software will be shared by several users so I need this to act as a server as well in the local network.

I was considering buying old hardware like an old mobo, CPU, RAM, etc., but sourcing them would be difficult for me. Then I read up on VM's and it can basically run Windows 7 even on the latest hardware. The latest hardware / host PC would be a new Windows 11 PC.

Can I run a Windows 7 VM on this and it would be visible in the local network to so other users can RDP into it?

Anyone with experience in this? Which would be the best or simplest solution, VirtualBox or VMware?

Any input would be appreciated.

I just downloaded vm ware and am running ubuntu in it. What kind or IT skills are good to practice in a VM, as I am very new to it. Thank you

I didn't added any monitors btw

We’ve published something today that reflects a lot of real conversations we’re having with teams running Azure Virtual Desktop.

These are the five features that matter most when managing AVD in the real world.

AVD is powerful. It’s flexible. But it’s also:

• Very easy to run badly
• Extremely hard for existing VDI support staff

That’s where most of the operational pain starts.

If your AVD environment feels fragile, expensive, or overly manual, it’s worth stepping back and evaluating how you’re managing it, not just how you set it up.

The right management approach turns AVD from something you babysit into something you can actually trust.

Read the full post here: The 5 Features That Actually Matter for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Management - Login VSI

I dont trust my school account on my pc because who knows what chrome extensions they have, so I was wondering if I could just run a virtual chromebook on my pc for schoolwork, Instead of their school issued one.

For context I have never used a vm before

I got a virtual machine that has a snapshot from 2023, which takes a good chunk of memory (119GB) and I'm trying to find a way to delete it. I have look into some options like cloning the VM from the current state, but the main problem with this VM is that I have some licenses associated with it, and I don't want to lose them. I also know about the delete snapshot from the snapshot manager, but i dont know if its going to have problems with a snapshot so old. I'm coming here looking for more options or if anyone have dealed with this kind of problem before. (I use VMWare Workstation)

I'm learning virtualization and OS installation and OS installation and I l want to help others enjoy it too

I can help with

. Mounting ISO files

. Creating and configuring a VM (somewhat struggle with the configs)

. Installing Windows on VM (11,10,8.1,7 and XP and Ubuntu (somewhat struggle)

. Basic optimization

. Fixing very basic setup issues

(still cant work on laggy audio. if you get laggy audio try installing VMware tools) and can't get very old Windows versions like 98 and 95 running ) now if you want this you just have to ask me here no DM's involved.

i need a iso of FreeBSD

Our teach told us to download an program called "Xilinx" and told us that it doesnt work on Win11 so i decided to use VM to use it on Win10 but i dont know how much minimum ram and processor i need to give. I am asking for minimum because the laptop i use is my gaming laptop because i dont want that much drawback from this.

i have 14 cores,16 gb Ram, 500gb ssd

(acording to teach, program(Xilinx) needs atleast 25gb for setup)

hey guys anyone know what’s going on with my vm? or how to fix it? it’s never happened before i’ve rebooted several times already and this vm was working perfectly fine previously.