We're wanting to simulate the Virtual Machine Compute Service locally before taking the jump into the actual service. Originally we looked into the Compute Emulator but that seems like it's only meant for Azure applications (web role/worker role) as opposed to simulating the VM environment since they run locally. Is that correct?
We already have our application running on a Windows Server 2012 VM running on a local machine. So we have that VM image but is there anyway to use that image locally to simulate the service features like the management portal? Or would the next step be to actually take the image and try it in the cloud service?
Thanks for the help!