Preparing for Insider Preview Builds of Windows 11 Insider

kado897 said:

Hyper-V is not an option. I'm on W10 Home. VMWare costs money and atm only supports DX11. Maybe QUEMU. I'll have to investigate,

Not necessarily.
There is VMWare Player too, that is free for personal usage. It is true, it only support DirectX 11, not 12 but supports several GBs of VRAM and is generally way superior to VirtualBox's graphics.

QEMU is not a good choice unless you can get it to use kernel virtualization. On Linux this is trivial with KVM but on a Windows base-host, once again, it needs Hyper-V. However, even though Home edition does not have the hyper-v role, it seems to have some degree of hyper-v support too, it is not just the full hypervisor we are used to. You could try:
Enable the Windows Hypervisor Platform which, supposing it can power up Hyper-V, would let applications take usage of it. It might be possible with QEMU this way on Home edition too. The other element in the "turn features on or off" is virtual machine platform - that is WSL2 (Linux subsystem 2), also based on Hyper-V, also available in Home edition.
Also you can instruct VMWare to utilize this Windows Hypervisor Platform instead of it's own engine. But make sure to make your choice as you can't have both: if you enable any of the hyper-v features (such as these) you cannot use vmware's or even virtualbox's own virtualization engine because they conflict with hyper-v. You would then have to turn off all these hyper-v-related features first.

Just signed up for the Insider program - Beta channel.

When can I expect to get the Windows 11 update? A couple of weeks? A month?

kado897 said:

You may need to be in the Dev channel. in which case you will get it next week.Don't know what day though.

I'm aware that the Dev channel gets it next week, but I don't want to join the dev channel. The article mentions that the Beta channel will start receiving Windows 11 preview builds "later this summer." I'm just wondering how far the beta channel is usually behind the dev channel.

Josey Wales said:

What Channel will 21H2 be in?????

I am having the same question. Honestly, my head is starting to hurt a bit. Let me see if I understand this correctly:
-Windows 11 is stating its debut via Insider channels. When is the official release date?
-What will happen with the current saga (Windows 10), i.e., 21H2 and 22H1...etc?
-How am I going to run Windows 11: dual booting with "current saga" which is not probably feasible, or VM (hyper-V) or can I just forgo Windows 10 and keep on going with Windows 11.

Those are questions for which I need answers.

kado897 said:

Hyper-V is not an option. I'm on W10 Home. VMWare costs money and atm only supports DX11. Maybe QUEMU. I'll have to investigate,

Latest VMware Workstation 16.1.2 support DirectX 12.
Screenshots -

kado897 said:

Ah, ok. Not what the web says.

I was suprissed also, therefore I checked website and also found DX11. I hope that AIDA doesn't have bug... So verify if you can.