Have a weird issue on a specific device -- if we install Windows 10 from a 21H2 .iso and power it up, connect to internet, it will not download the AutoPilot profile. It is an autopilot device. If we use 22H2 .iso it will.
Have tried the same on another device, but the other device it works fine. Only on this device does it return to 'Set up for personal use' or 'Set up for an organization'. On the other device, 21H2 downloads our company profile and works. And if we use 22H2 on the 'problem' machine, it downloads the company profile and works. It also fails to download if we do a Dell BIOS (Dell Support Assist) restore. IN addition, it is listing a bunch of unknown devices (missing drivers).
ONLY a new 22H2 .iso will make it work, and it gets all the drivers.
21H2 meets our minimum OS requirement, so it shouldn't be that.
Have tried installing Windows from 21H2 .iso several times, 22H2 several times. Tested the same on an alternate (but same model) machine and it is fine.
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Is there any virtualization solution that supports metal api?
We have an app that uses Metal internally, and we'd like to test it across different macOS versions. Unfortunately it seems that VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop & VMWare Fusion doesn't enable Metal API in their guest macOS.
How can we test the app without having multiple physical machines or without using dual-boot?
UPDATED ANSWER 2019
Parallels Desktop v. 15 finally uses Metal. See their blogpost.
ORIGINAL ANSWER:
As far as I researched there's no chance of doing so with virtual machines.
The only feasible work-around we found is to:
find/purchase hi-speed USB drive (or even external SSD)
install various macOS versions on partitions of the USB drive
boot your Mac from the pendrive and select the OS you want to test
Not ideal, but does the job.
I accidentally wiped-clean my Toshiba Satellite's hard drive, including the recovery partition and the preloaded Windows 10 that was stored on it. Now, the only option I believe I have is to download the ISO, burn it to a DVD or flash, boot the laptop from it and install Windows 10.
If so:
Will Windows 10 be automatically activated ?
Will Windows detect the laptop is one with preloaded copy of Windows and as such license it automatically ?
I don't have any product activation code, the only code printed on the laptop floor is the laptop's serial number...
Thanks.
Anecdotally, the same thing just happened to me. I deleted all partitions and re-installed it completely fresh on a Dell Latitude laptop, figuring I'd lost the license.
In my case, the laptop is licensed just fine. I didn't do anything specific to license it.
As a side note, The ISO I downloaded didn't specify version, though it defaulted to Windows 10 Professional before when I used it on a custom-built machine. This one defaulted to Windows 10 Home, something I also didn't specify. I don't remember for sure which version I had before I nuked it.
I am running Windows 10 Education from a Macbook Pro, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB ram running OS X 10.11 using Parallels Desktop 11.
I have spend the last two days trying to get Visual Studio 2015 to run the Windows phone emulators properly (More precisely: Mobile Emulator 10.0.10240.0 WVGA 4 inch 512MB). Managed to solve most, but now stuck with the emulator being very unreliable mainly giving me the following errors:
The connection to 169.254.17.107:8117 has been lost. Debugging will be aborted.
or
The emulator couldn't determine the host IP address, which is used to communicate with the guest virtual machine.
Some functionality may be disabled.
I can't find a pattern because sometimes it happens while the application is deploying - sometimes after it has loaded perfectly and I was able to use the emulator. Every now and then, after getting an error, I simply run the application again right away and it will work ok, until next time i need to run it.
The virtual switch in Hyper-V is set to Interal and I have also tried External and Private.
I have tried setting the MAC type to static for the network adapter under settings in Hyper-V.
Tried deleting the emulators and all virtual switches.
Tried disabling and enabling the virtual switch in Network Sharing.
Some of the guides and posts elsewhere about similar problems are a bit outdated (Running Windows 8 and Parallels 8 ect.) Can anyone help me make the emulators work every time with my setup?
Is it possible to deploy Windows 10 IoT (Rasp Pi image) as a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox or VMWare Player?
I need for a testing lab a network of three to five Windows 10 IoT devices. A virtual cluster would be perfect. My Google- and Bing-based research failed.
The problem could be either the non-ISO disk image file format or the non-x86 architecture of the operating system, couldn't it?
The easiest way I found is downloading Windows 10 IoT Core for MinnowBoard MAX
(here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691712). This MinnowBoard is x86-based and the image comes in a .iso file. I know the OP was specific about being a Rasp Pi image, but I don't really see the difference if we're just trying to use a hypervisor. Afterwards, you may just follow this tutorial: http://www.newventuresoftware.com/blog/running-windows-10-iot-core-in-a-virtual-machine
It's very simple and straight-forward, and it works with VirtualBox.
Based on #makoshichi's links here's the steps that worked for me:
Download MinnowBoard MAX IoT Core from microsoft, and install
Run ImgMount tool as Admin to mount "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft IoT\FFU\MinnowBoardMax\flash.ffu"
Detach the VHD from Disk Management (in Computer Management), move the resultant .vhd file (that it informs you of on detach) to a location of your choice
Create, but don't launch, a new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox (expert mode) as Windows 32-bit, using an "existing virtual hard disk file" - the one you just moved
Goto device Settings->System and click Enable EFI (special OSes only)
Goto device Settings->Network and select Bridged Adapater
That's it - Run your virtual machine and be a happy Thing of the Internet, or something like that.
This is my short version of this wonderful post by Yavor Ivanov.
The QEMU emulator may do it, it will boot the image file directly. you may need to expand the ffu with dism first.
You don't have to fully install w10 preview: just boot the W10 real or virtual DVD and select to open a cmd box, from there you can run the updated dism command.iot w10 have no (direct) GUI, you must talk to the device via winrm and powershell
There is a good startup for you on
sourceforge
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https://github.com/0xabu/qemu/tree/raspi is a working way to run Windows 10 IoT on Qemu. It fully emulates a RPi2, except USB
Hi you could use the Raspberry Pi Simulator https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-hub/iot-hub-raspberry-pi-web-simulator-get-started
For a customer we created a software which will be installed at about 350 USB sticks. Now we want that this .exe is automatically executed when the stick is plugged into the PC.
A few years ago we used the simple autorun.inf method.
But for Windows 7 and later Windows versions this function is not longer working as I've seen. That makes me a little bit wondering because in my system control I can select how the drive will be opened. At "software and games" I selected "always ask", then I put this Autorun.inf on the stick:
[autorun]
open=Demo1.exe
But it's not working. The only thing that Windows makes when I plug the stick into, it asks whether I want to open the drive folder.
What I have to do that the software starts automatically OR a window opens in which the user can decide to run the executable or don't do that?
For Windows 7 and later only optical drives can specify auto run tasks. Indeed earlier versions of Windows can be patched to behave the same way. This change was made in response to the Conficker worm.
So your goal simply cannot be achieved. You will need to instruct users to explore the memory stick and run a specific program manually.
You cannot specify autorun.inf tasks for USB drives. Read here for futher Information: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/04/27/improvements-to-autoplay.aspx
Previous answers from David Heffernan and Mofi are right. Only CD/DVD/Optical drives are allowed to specify auto run tasks.
BUT, if you identify the manufacturer of the USB chip and get the firmware management tool for this chip, you can reconfigure it and get the USB to appear as a CD drive to the OS.
If this seems an overhelming task, you can get your USB created by some companies dedicated to the distribution of multimedia content.
And Microsoft released for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 the security hotfix KB967940 explained at Microsoft Security Advisory (967940) which disables the autorun feature for all drives except CD and DVD drives. See also ZDNet article Microsoft disables AutoRun on Windows XP/Vista to prevent malware infections.
So it is not possible anymore that something is automatically started when a writable USB flash memory device is plugged in to prevent malware to run automatically.