[HN Gopher] Microsoft fails to provide Windows 10 VM images for ...
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       Microsoft fails to provide Windows 10 VM images for developers
        
       Author : JaimeThompson
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-07-14 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | c7DJTLrn wrote:
       | On a very orthogonal note, I downloaded the official VMs once in
       | the past hoping that it would be like a premade Windows 'rootfs'
       | that I could base my own installation on, like how Canonical
       | provides the (very tiny) Ubuntu Base rootfs. Unfortunately, I
       | learned that bootstrapping Windows absolutely requires the setup
       | (downlevel) process because of a phase that writes which devices
       | are present into the registry so that the correct drivers can be
       | loaded. The setup process that runs after the base system is
       | written to disk bloats up the footprint of the OS quite a bit.
       | 
       | Anyway, I'm silly for trying to treat Windows like Linux. It's
       | quite fun hacking around with the OS though and seeing what's
       | possible - UWF is one thing worth looking into.
        
         | tinus_hn wrote:
         | Like Windows, Linux of course also requires you to have drivers
         | loaded for the disks that contain your filesystems.
        
       | smoldesu wrote:
       | I like how the catalyst for this whole brouhaha is a tweet where
       | someone jokingly prods the FTC, as if they'd be able to make
       | Microsoft start providing pre-built VM images.
       | 
       | If we're on the topic of "holding vendors accountable for
       | providing usable VM images", there are far more heinous players
       | at the table here. Unless you're using an incomplete VM suite,
       | most people will be perfectly suited with the Win10 ISO and
       | container snapshots. I really fail to see what the riot is about.
        
       | nix23 wrote:
       | Oh nice that i am not the only one, downloaded a image 4 days
       | ago, and it say'd "valid for 2 days", but Win11 images where
       | still not available ;)
        
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