Hyper-v server can get pretty damn lightwieght as it ships without a GUI
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arcine@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Sure ! But… How !? I don’t have even the first idea how you’d host… Almost anything on Windows 😅 and I would be concerned by the power consumption of any non-minimalist OS.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
+1 for Hyper-V, despite being glitchy and only sustaining Home Assistant for about 12 hours this and VirtualBox were my best chance at self hosting VMs on a Windows host. The problem wasn’t the virtualization, but the rest of the OS and its persistent maintenance cycles. Antivirus (MsMpEng.exe) and its NTFS scanning running more and more resources until the CPU was clogged. OP has gotta start somewhere.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Oh I was suggesting a the free standalone hyper v server MS did but I just searched for it and it looks like they killed it off recently which sucks. Was probably the best MS os going.
tux7350@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Docker for desktop will also let you run a lot of services
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 3 weeks ago Isn’t docker on windows just Linux in a trenchcoat?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
My ESXi box draws 20 watts at idle with 3 Windows VMs and 3 Linux VMs.
Guess which of those VMs draws the most power (hint: it’s not Windows).
helix@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Did you install the guest tools and set the CPU governor to the correct scheduler? Do the Windows boxes host the same applications as the Linux boxes?
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Idle windows is so damn heavy on io :(
fonix232@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Windows Server exists.
It really shouldn't, but it does.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
…. I’m stealing that 😀