Click your heels, um, mouse thrice and you've quickly got Ubuntu on Hyper-V in Win 10 Pro Windows 10 users have yet another way to run Linux, thanks to tighter integration between Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor. While creating a virtual machine using Hyper-V in Windows 10 is not a particularly arduous activity, the Fall Creators Update brought in a gallery of virtual machines to boot up on the …
I found that the best way for "seamless mode" is to run a vcxsrv under Windows and configure both PuTTY and sshd for X11 forwarding. Your Linux machine can run anywhere on the network (including your own box - Hyper-V can run your virtual machine in the background). GUI for your Linux hosted programs will show up on Windows screen almost as if it was native application. I rather like running CLion this way (so I have native gcc / clang build despite running Windows, in a virtual machine, on top of headless Linux)
I've been doing that for years and its been working flawlessly for a long time, also for some heavy gaming (e.g. Witcher 3). Granted, my Linux box (and hypervisor) is beefed up and headless. The GPU is exclusively assigned to Windows guest with vfio, so that might not be what you are looking for. Having the ability to just roll back Windows to an old snapshot of "drive C" via ssh to hypervisor is very nice, though.
I think far from dead. The ability to run up a bash shell and do all manner of bashy things* is often far more convenient than running up a full VM. Even my ageing Surface 3 runs WSL perfectly well. Now Hyper-V has me curious. More efficient in practice than running up a VM under VirtualBox?
* Replacement for Putty and WinSCP, run Bash scripts with all the familiar Linux tools, API testing using Curl and so on.
I recently acquired a sexy new Dell laptop. The fly in the ointment is that it came with Windows 10 installed. Even after several weeks I feel a wave of nausea every time I see the garish applications on the start "menu".
I've thought about zapping the horrible thing and simply installing Linux, but reports on the web suggest the battery life suffers. I've also tried a dual-boot installation, but it turns out the Ubuntu installer can't see the disk unless I tweak some BIOS setting that can only be changed before installing Windows.
I wonder if this might be a solution?
"I recently acquired a sexy new Dell laptop."
Me too. I got Arch on it without even having to accept any unwanted license agreements. Being able to update the BIOS from the EFI partition is a welcome change to the contortions Linux users have often suffered in the past (eg convert swap partition to a fat32 f/s so that FreeDOS can run a DOS only updater)
but it turns out the Ubuntu installer can't see the disk unless I tweak some BIOS setting that can only be changed before installing Windows.
You mean the AHCI/IDE mode.
Try recompiling a kernel with drivers for your AHCI controller, or even easier, just change to IDE (at least temporarily).
My nose tells me that your laptop is a consumer (as opposed to business-class) model.
Nice to see Microsoft spending some of its valuable braintrust working on passion projects like this. Now that this is done, maybe they could go back to something important like, I dunno, making Hybrid Exchange better than the godawful dumpster fire it currently is? Honestly, is that what Clayton Forrester has been working on since he quit working for Deep 13?
Slick but also a reminder why I avoid Ubuntu. Problems with the latest/greatest? Well... Wouldn't ssh or https to anything while connected to the office via Openconnect. Odd really, because I was able to ssh from the corporate Dell to my shiny new Ubuntu VM. A colleague with deep knowledge of ssh helped me with the former. I'm still looking at the latter. I never have these problems with Mint and CENTOS. I've also spun up a Mint VM under Hyper-V, but that takes a little more effort (had to tell it what screen resolution to use, and copy/paste won't work between it and Windows, unlike a VirtualBox resident).
Also, Hyper-V isn't necessarily better than VirtualBox. Whereas Virtualbox sees your monitor as its monitor, connection to a Hyper-V is via Remote Desktop/X (the only way is headless, it seems). Overall performance is better, but graphic performance is a little sluggish. Good to muck around with these things.
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