Windows 10: What Operating systems are on your virtual machines and why?

VMWare Workstation, Windows 8.1.1 Core 64 and 32 bit versions. Why? I cook custom images to deploy in a matter of 10ish minutes, a fully configured and update version of Windows 8.1.1 that requires very little input from me. Makes life MUCH more enjoyable.

It also makes people think I'm a wizard and spend WAY too much time working on their PCs. I don't know if they believe me when I tell them it literally takes me at most 30 minutes to do all this, minus of course backing up their data and restoring it. *Biggrin

On two other PC's I've set up, those two are running a very very slimmed down and configured and offline 32 bit Windows xp SP3. Why? One is used to keep a Dell AIO printer in service, the other is to run elder software that is meant to run on Windows 3.11 to xp and nothing else. The setup on that PC is pretty awesome as it's so simple to run all of that old software, I still get thanked for that to this day because that was for a friend's grandfather who is a priest and runs those old digital library programs that have all sorts of scriptures he studies daily. And also the fact he apparently isn't very technologically oriented and things like this are WAY over his head beyond this galaxy; him being able to use a new Windows 8 PC and still have everything he needs configured in a way so he can use it proficiently and see everything well, that was a good day. *Smile

 

PC1-inVM
Win8.1 pro, Xunbutu and Haiku
PC2-inVM
Win8.1pro,
However, I use Win7 installed as daily production OS in both.

 

Does anyone have a clean link download for windows 3.1? Maybe a vmware player image already made?

 

There usually is a problem with imaging MS-DOS 6.22 [last version] and Windows 3.11/Windows for Workgroups 3.11 [last versions] in that they came on floppies and the disk programming calls for inserting the next disk, makes it difficult to put all the files in one image file. I have them imaged using WinImage so I can create new ones when needed but don't think I'll need to go that route again, have only one machine with Win3.1 and it's a laptop 386SX-16MHz.

 

I run Windows 3.1 in DOSBox, so that I can run Jezzball in an x64 environment. It has Calmira as the shell (which gives it a Win95 like setup)

 

Just added Win 10, so now it's five.

 

I now have 8.1 Eval and 10 Preview

 

Because back then, no one knew what a computer was LOL ......... *Tongue

 

Menu showed in Win 95 first.

 

At the moment in this Windows 10 Tech Preview I only have these virtual machines installed on Hyper-.V:

• Windows XP Pro SP3
• Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
• Windows 8.1 Pro
• Windows 10 Tech Preview (x2)

And for fun of it, Windows XP Mode installed on above mentioned Windows 7 Ultimate Hyper-V virtual machine.

 

On this laptop I have the following VMWare Player VMs:

DOS 6.22
WFWG 3.11
Win 95
Win 2000 Pro
Win ME
Win XP Pro
Win 10 Tech Prev 64

I also have the following VirtualBox VMs:

Win 7 Ult 64
Ubuntu 12.04 64
Win 8.1 Pro 64
XP Pro
MX-14
Win 2000
Mint Mate
Ubuntu 14.04 64

Too many. I have even more on my desktop.

 

My latest vm install, just got CentOS 7 up and running on Win 10 Hyper-V:

 

About that previous post of mine, I just got this ready for those interested:

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- Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon for save web browsing (no more worries about viruses, trojans and the like), getting my emails and downloading (torrents, usenet).
- Windows 10 TP for testing purposes.