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On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 11:13:11PM +0000, mr meowski wrote: > Honestly, it isn't even remotely difficult getting most Linux variants > to work on Hyper-V ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > The only thing I had to change from the default options was creating a > gen2 VM instead of a gen1 VM, which I would have thought was obvious > anyway (newer = better, duh). For an installation source I used the > standard debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso which throw an error on first > boot, clearly a secureboot warning (it literally told me on screen it > was a secureboot issue). So I disabled that in the settings, rebooted > and then just clicked through an absolutely standard Debian graphical > installer. Didn't change any options whatsoever, network worked just > fine out of the box (vswitch connected to the laptop wifi card). > Rebooted VM to a graphical login, ran 'apt install hyperv-daemons' and > dist-upgraded the kernel, rebooted again. Everything a-ok. > > Microsoft haven't included Debian 9 on their Hyper-V compatibility chart > yet but it's been working out of the box for ages. > > That being said, to go back to Henry's original issue, it's not the > nicest solution for running a full-screen VM to do actual work in. > Performance is poor, especially the graphical aspect, compared to for > example VBox or VMWare workstation. > > So Henry if you want to carry on down the VM route choose something > other than Hyper-V ideally as I originally warned you. If you persevere > with Hyper-V just make sure to install Debian 9 or later (Debian 7 and 8 > are ok too but require Gen1 VMs), make it a Gen2 VM and disable > secureboot in the settings before you try to boot the iso. Other than > that it works just fine. If your current attempt is a Gen1 VM just > delete it and start a new Gen2 one (no easy conversion tools). > > It will be interesting to see what Henry ends up doing. 4Gb of RAM just > isn't enough to run a fullscreened Linux VM on top of Windows 10 and not > experience some serious issues... > Lets see. Thanks. As long as I rync data between my main machine and the VM and take it with me on a business trip to keep up to date, that works. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq