You need 1 Azure VM based on Ev3 or Dv3, for my testing I used a Standard_E2_v3 hosted in West Europe (Currently the new machine are only in West US2, East US2, Southeast Asia and West Europe).(Beware that Apple licensing is probably not going to approve of this, but let’s save that concern for another day). Furthermore, as I’m going to show in this blog post, I can also install an open source Hypervisor like VirtualBox and use that to emulate a Mac, of course that can also be done on a local machine, but the benefit of running it in the cloud is that it can be online 24×7 which is great if you need a build or test server. To me as a developer that is pretty cool, because now I can actually create a development machine in the cloud, install hyper-v on it and run my mobile emulators or even use docker for Windows, which is dependent on Hyper-V. Why is that interesting you might ask? Well, it is interesting because now it is possible to run hyper visors inside an Azure VM.

Last week Microsoft finally released their new Azure Virtual Machine series Dv3 and Ev3, besides being based on the latest Intel hardware, these machine are also running Windows Server 2016 as the host OS which supports nested virtualization. Interesting articles about Azure, Docker and Office 365

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