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I like the Sandbox app / feature built into Win10/11 (very fast to boot). I wish it'd allow saving snapshots and being automated. I want to set one up with a full dev environment for example.

Full HyperV VMs are significantly slower to boot and run.

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If you haven’t already messed around with WSB files, I would encourage them for more complicated use cases.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

The WinGet github repository has some scripts to setup and install programs inside.

Can second Windows Sandbox - 3s startup time, can copy things into it and it does like 85% of what I need completely isolated.

I mainly use it to test silent install flags when I'm deploying apps or running untrusted things :)

snapshots would be nice. it is actually a container of sorts underneath, with RDP support, so they could do it if they desired. (they don't, it seems, unfortunately.)

Windows containers gaining RDP is probably the bigger wishlist item, for me. Windows containers with a GUI would make some things extremely trivial and other things much easier.

I documented how to set up RDS in containers back in 2018 [1] then Microsoft swooped in and killed it. They are weirdly sensitive when it comes to terminal services. Could perhaps be licensing/financially motivated. I get emails almost weekly to this day asking for updates. Wish I had one.

[1]: https://withinrafael.com/2018/03/09/using-remote-desktop-ser...

Hey Rafael,

How have you been? Are you still in the Bellevue/Redmond area?

Windows Sandbox is really great, I just wish it could coexist with VirtualBox.

VirtualBox keeps teasing proper Hyper-V support "any release now", but given how many releases have teased that and also Oracle's lack of incentive to actually make it happen (because they want you to buy their servers) who knows if/when it will ever happen. Ball is definitely in Oracle's court, though.

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