I am playing with window azure SDK and would like to set up my instance as 32 bit system, there are so many option available in "configure OS", so anyone know that by which combination I can set up 32 bit system on Window Azure?
Microsoft does support 32 bits OS in Azure, just as long as you upload the image yourself and provides no support for it. Which makes sense. Details on the page Support for 32-bit operating systems in Azure virtual machines:
Microsoft Azure now allows users to bring in their 32-bit Windows Operating systems over to Azure
You can't: currently Azure is only configured with 64-bit versions of Windows Server. I would expect this will not change.
If you need a 32-bit operating system you may be better looking for alternative ways to host your application.
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I stumbled upon this answer from 2016 (with an update in 2017) where 64-bit functions were in a very nascent, untested state.
As 32-bit is still the default for new Azure Functions, and that the memory footprint of an 64-bit application is higher than a 32-bit one, what should you consider in your decision to toggle the 64-bit mode in Azure Functions?
As far as I know, we don't have to think about it too much when toggle the 64-bit mode as 32-bit packages are compatible on 64-bit(if toggle from 64-bit to 32-bit, maybe we need to think about it). One thing we need to know is if use app service plan for the function, we need to choose the service plan which the tier higher than "basic".
Constraints:
My application requires SSE4.2 instruction set.
I am using packer.io to provision my Windows Azure VM (OpenLogic 6.5 OS.)
Windows Azure returns an AMD-processor-backed-VM about 15% of the time. The rest of the time - they are Intel-processor-based. AMD processors do not support SSE4.2, but they do support SSE4a. So, my application is terminated with SIGILL on AMD processors.
Questions:
Can I request specific architecture (Intel CPU) when Packer
provisions a VM? I know that instance types >= A8 come only with Intel processors, but they are more expensive, and I would not want to use them for development.
If Packer cannot do it, what are the other options
(Powershell, ect...) that would give me this functionality?
Thank you.
Answering my own question. Azure does not provide a way to request processor type. The only way to ensure Intel processor is to not use A-series machines (as confirmed by a MSFT representative.) Thus, no tool can do it.
I want to develop a Windows 10 app (something similar to Windows Store app) .
I want to know , would I be able to get the following details from my app
CPU Usage and show top Metro apps consuming RAM
Getting list of all the apps installed.
Battery Usage , list apps consuming more battery
Kill apps consuming more RAM and CPU
Switch On /OFF wifi , Bluetooth from the app only
Any idea if these would be supported or not or shall I go with a WPF application
There is no way to gather this information from a Windows Store App (now called a "Windows Universal App"). Your best bet is to build a Desktop App (now called a "Classic Windows App") to get the information - and WPF is a fine choice if you already know how to use that.
Most of the features you list above (particularly "2.Getting list of all the apps installed." and "4.Kill apps consuming more RAM and CPU") require administrator rights. Windows 8 Store apps and universal Windows apps for Windows 10 run in a isolated security context called AppContainer that has less rights than a standard user much less an administrator. By design, these apps do not have the ability to impact other apps or system systems generally.
At least for #5, there is this new API in Windows 10.
I don't know of a solution for 1-4.
I usually connect to my computer in the university using team viewer. Is there any way (for example using ACPI) to determine if my monitor is on (i.e., other one can see it)? I have no web cam there. Its operating system is Windows 7 - 64 bit.
Title says it. There are not strong enough words in the English language that can express my hatred of Windows 8. I will not install it on my personal machine.
I was hoping to create an Azure VM and do my development there. But Windows 8 was not an option for a VM. So on a whim I created a 2012 Server VM and downloaded and installed the Windows 8 SDK. It installed fine.
I created a Hello World application and tried to run it. I got an error saying that Hyper-V was required. I used Coreinfo.exe to check and it says Hyper-V is not supported. So am I SOL?
The Windows Phone 8 emulator requires Client Hyper-V, which is a new feature of Windows 8. The emulator is an x86 virtual machine, which runs an x86 build of Windows Phone 8, and makes use of the RemoteFX technology for hardware virtual GPU support. It's so it runs at a high percentage of real device performance, and is very closely compatible.
Unfortunately, for hardware reasons, Hyper-V cannot be nested. In the Intel and AMD processor virtualization models, a guest operating system cannot itself be a nested hypervisor.
RemoteFX requires Second Level Address Translation. How to check if your processor supports it.
If you want to use the emulator, I'm afraid you have to install Windows 8. You can always dual-boot. Alternatively, get a phone developer-unlocked so you can debug on real hardware.