Windows Server 2022 VMs
Hi there, are there any plans to support a Windows Server 2022 VM option in the near future?
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 10 Jan, 2023 05:49 PM
We are going to support Windows Server 2022, but I can't give you an ETA now - we have just a few users asking about that. If we see a greater demand in WS 2022 we might increase the priority of this item.
Saying that, there are a few options to have builds on Windows Server 2022 today:
1) We could setup a custom cloud for your account with an image based on Windows Server 2022. It's going to run on GCP and it's a paid add-on with per-minute pricing. GCP doesn't support a nested virtualization in Windows image though, so WSL will be working inside VM, but Hyper-V not.
2) If you need Hyper-V inside VM then you can configure BYOC on Azure which supports nested virtualization on certain instances.
Let me know if you have any questions.
2 Posted by andrew.morrison on 11 Jan, 2023 03:16 PM
Thanks Feodor, it's good to know it's on the roadmap. I'm happy to wait and will revert if I need to to discuss the options if priorities dictate this end.
3 Posted by Rob on 06 Aug, 2024 07:59 PM
Hi, what is the status of a Windows Server 2022 image? I saw some scripts in the build-images repo and tried it out but it didn't let me ;-)
Looking to use docker via WSL2 to get a linux container running: I think on the VS 2022 image it uses LCOW which does not seem to play well (and is deprecated anyway). I could be wrong, or perhaps there's already a way to do it on the VS 2022 image already
Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 06 Aug, 2024 08:03 PM
Hi Rob,
We've been running Windows Server 2022 with Docker successfully with some customers. It's not going to be a part of our free tier though as it's run on Azure 4-core VMs with nested virtualization enabled. Happy to share pricing if you are interested.