I had this idea that I wanted Hyper-V on my laptop...

2012-01-25T12:18:48.220-05:00

I had this idea that I wanted Hyper-V on my laptop, so I could run Windows and Ubuntu at the same time, no reboots.

I installed standalone Hyper-V in its own partition, but couldn't connect with RSAT. Eventually I realize that my Windows desktop experience might not be good enough, so I abandoned that.

Then I tried to install Windows Server 2008 R2 as my desktop OS, and then add the Hyper-V role. First, the Wi-Fi didn't quite work. I was able to install the driver, but it never saw any networks. Second, there's a problem with Hyper-V and 3D graphics cards, unless your CPU has SLAT (which mine does not).

So, I'm back to Win7.

I thought about using this laptop as home server running Hyper-V, and that might still work, since I could run just VGA. We'll see.

Funny... I tried to do this last night, but got st...

2012-01-22T12:02:34.311-05:00

Funny... I tried to do this last night, but got stuck when the RSAT wouldn't connect.

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I had this idea that I wanted Hyper-V on my laptop...

Funny... I tried to do this last night, but got st...