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Hello Community,
I wanted to ask if anyone here is successfully using a local Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365FO) VM on their laptop.

I would love to know:
- Is anyone running the local VM smoothly on their laptop?
- What are your system specifications and configurations?
- Any tips or best practices for configuring it to run successfully?

Thanks in advance!

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Jonas "Jones&q... 5,016 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I've used local machines quite a lot, and you can get a really smooth experience if you get one with some proper specs.

- Make sure you get a laptop with at least 32Gb. of memory, and allocate 12+ GB to the VM.

Remember to restrict memory utilization of the SQL server.

- 6 cores at least - Core I7 class, and not the ultra-low-power kind.

- Disk is king, make sure you have plenty of IOPS.

- Follow https://denistrunin.com's blog religiously. He writes some good articles on developer machine performance improvements.

I'll send the specs of my laptop when I get home.

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Running on a 16GB laptop - yes

Running Smoothly - sadly not

The closest I've come to good performance was using a local Hyper V server and allocating 28-32GB or memory. Other than that, Jonas' suggestions I agree with, and I would say for it to run smoothly, you need those as a minimum.

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Jonas "Jones&q... 5,016 Most Valuable Professional on at

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These are my laptop specs:

Lenovo T14 Gen 1
Windows 11 Pro
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz
Installed RAM: 32,0 GB
SSD disk : WDC PC SN730 1TB

And if you really want to have some fast VM's, you use a setup like this 😅

This can easily run 4 F&O VHD's at the same time

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CU24101049-0 11 on at

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Hi everyone,

Thank you all for your responses!

I have installed a local virtual machine (VM) on my system, and it’s running fine. However, the URL for accessing the VM isn't working.

System Specs:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70 GHz

RAM: 32.0 GB

System type: 64-bit OS, x64-based processor

Could you please suggest how I can configure it so that the URL works correctly?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,
Gopaluni Lakshmi Charan.

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Martin Dráb 240,002 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Your problem about accessing the URL isn't related to the topic of this thread; i.e. a laptop spec and configuration for F&O virtual machines.

Please create a new thread and explain your problem in detail there. Don't forget to mention how you've set up the environment (e.g. whether you followed Set up the downloadable VHD for first use), how you're accessing the URL, what you mean by "isn't working" (e.g. you're getting 404 or 500 HTTP code), what you did to analyze the problem (e.g. what you've found when you consulted F&O event logs) and so on.

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