azure devops - VSTS build agents - Can one computer run multiple build agents?

Question

I have a Windows VM that hosts a VSTS build agent. Due to the number and length of builds that are running I would like to know whether multiple build agents can be hosted on one computer? That would allow a dedicated agent for slow builds, and a dedicated agent for quick builds.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/admin/agents/v2-windows

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40797253/vsts-build-agents-can-one-computer-run-multiple-build-agents

Answer 1

Yes you can run multiple agents in a single VM.

Make two directories say Agent1 and Agent2, extract the agent in each one of them and configure them with different names against your VSTS/TFS account.

It should work out of the box.