I will probably install a Windows KMS Server in active Directory mode soon, and i have a simple question whereas i can't find any answer at this time.
That i'd like to know :
If i install a windows virtual machine, i join the domain, the final activation is activated for the virtual machine via the KMS, and a count is started to reduce of 1 the total volume licence key available. It's ok for me.
But :
If i delete the windows 10 or 11 virtual machine from the hypervisor (and delete the computer object bounded to it in the AD) : Does the key installed on it is "uncounted" of the total of activations possible with the volume key licence? And then, i'll be able to reinstall a Windows VM without rebuy a new volume activations keys?
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I've been reading about it, and I don't know if there is anyway of doing it.
I want to create a Virtualbox virtual machine inside another virtual machine I created in azure, and I don't have Hyper-V activated.
My virtual machine doesn't have a BIOS to access and enable it, and I read that not all virtual machines in azure allow nested virtualization.
The virtual machine I have right now is a B1ms standard and what I read is that I need a V3 machine to virtualize a virtual machine inside the azure one. Is that true? I don't want to spend money just creating it and then not beeing able to do it.
Thanks :)
This can be done using Nested virtualization in Azure. And yes you heard it right that not all Azure Virtual Machines in Azure allow this and you would need V3 VMs. Make sure to choose a VM size large enough to support the demands of a guest virtual machine.
For costing, you can either create a trial Azure account that would give you a credit of $200. Or if you have got a Visual studio Pro or Enterprise license, you are eligible for free monthly credits that you can use for exploring Azure.
Although you can use Nested Virtualization it might be better to just convert your VirtualBox images to Azure VHDs. This is relatively straightforward:
vboxmanage clonehd SOMETHING.vdi SOMETHING.vhd --format VHD
Afterwards you can use Azure Storage Explorer (or the CLI) to upload the VHD and use this to deploy a Native Virtual Machine on Azure.
I have installed Windows Server 2012 in my 3 Desktop PCs. I am using it for study purpose. In that PCs I need to install Ubuntu Desktop OS Like Dual OS. I searched in internet. All I got was Dual OS for Windows Server is possible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
Please help me to find a solution to install Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in Same Machine. Or else suggest me a Free OS Like Ubuntu which supports Dual OS with Windows Server 2012 in Same machine.
Thanks,
Rokesh
There are several ways to do that, the easiest is to have two HDs, physically, witch would be safer, during the installation you could detach the drive with Windows Server, install Ubuntu and then reattach the Windows HD. If this is not a possibility you could use the Windows partition tool to remove a part of the NTFS, you will have to make some research on this. Since you don't say either or not you have tried to do that all i can say is what I usually do:
1 - Windows Installation:
Boot from a flash drive containing the Windows.
In the moment I can select the drive in which I will install the SO, choose to change It then remove the existing partition, confirm.
Create a new partition with, in a case
like this, half the available size in the HD, install the Windows normally.
2 - Ubuntu Installation:
Boot from a flash drive with Ubuntu installation files.
Use the device boot list/options key, (in a desktop PC will be F8 key, in a notebook will vary, F11 and F12 are the most common).
In the boot list choose de flash drive to boot, follow the initial parts of the Ubuntu installation 'till the partitioning part.
In the disk option choose the empty space in your HD. You can let Ubuntu automatically create the set for you or manually do it.
Case you decide to try manually, create one small partition, like up to 30% of the space to the mounting point /, a swap partition with twice the size of you RAM memory, all the remaining space can be assigned to the /home mounting point, this way you can reinstall Ubuntu formatting the system partition and keep your data on /home.
This link, brought to us by JHBonarius, have a detailed step by step to do it with Windows 10 and 8.1. With Windows Server should not be too different.
I'm working on a project for a client to install HMI application on the client servers. The client has requested to install the application inside Hyper-v virtual machine so that in case the operating system crashes then it will be easy to restore it back through the virtual machine drive back-up.
However, the customer is asking me to lock the virtual machine so that the machine's operator should not be able to go to the host operating system and only work through the virtual machine alone.
If it is not possible with Hyper-v options, then is there any free 3rd party tool which can do the same job.
I will really appreciate any advice on this issue.
Ok I wasn't able to prevent computer users from closing the virtual machine application. However I did manage to mitigate the effect of closing the virtual machine.
First thing I did was setting up Remote Desktop to connect the host to the VM remotely through hyper-v virtual switch. Then I installed Allen Bradley DeskLock tool (It is a free tool that comes together with their FTView CD). Through DeskLock I have prevented the user from doing anything over the host (Locked the desktop) and I provided him with only one button to run Remote Desktop and open the VM whenever he closes it by mistake.
I don't think that this answers the question completely, but it was the only solution I found without touching the computer Registry
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
fc
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
I'm searching for a solution to boot a native OS on a hard disk as a virtual machine.
It's like what VMware Fusion did on a Mac which boots Windows in Boot Camp as a virtual machine.
In detail, I have Windows installed on /dev/sda2 and Ubuntu 11.10 on /dev/sda5.
Is there anyway to use a virtual machine software to boot the Windows on /dev/sda2 as a virtual machine while I'm using Ubuntu?
Yes, I did this long ago following this guide:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-nm/2008-February/000521.html
of course, always backup and be careful!
Essentially:
Used a USB 3.5 HD enclosure and connect the XP drive to it.
If the drive was shutdown uncleanly you may need to manually
mount it with the following command.
sudo mount ntfs-3g /dev/whereyourdriveis /mount/somemountpoint -o
force
Once the drive is mounted under linux contiunue to step 2.
Launch VMWare.
Go to File -> New -> New Virtual Machine.
Select "Custom"
Select Next
Select your operating system (i.e. Win XP)
Select Next
Give it a name like "WindowsXP"
Select Next
Specify processor One or Two
Select Next
Choose public or private (on a single-user machine this doesn't
matter)
Select Next
Select the memory to devote to the virtual machine. 512 MB is a
pretty useful number.
Select your network connection
Select Next.
Leave SCSI set to BusLogic
Select Next
Select Use Physical Disk
Select Next
Select Use Entire Drive
Select Next
Specify the place to save the VM
At this point you're done Select Power On to boot the Physical drive
in VMWare!
More Info: I should add, I have successfully done this, but I also had success using this method years even years before. So there are at least two known and tested ways for accomplishing this that I can tell you.
You can do this via VirtualBox raw disk access.
(http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html)
It basically creates a "virtual" disk file that points to the actual partition and loads it as a disk drive in the VM. I've installed Linux guest in VB on Windows host in such a way, and the installation can boot from the VM or by itself.
As answered, this also can be done in VirtualBox, this is the way that works for me
Always, make sure that you are running as Administrator(Windows) or Sudo(Linux), any changes that you do will write to the REAL disk, so be carefull
In Windows
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "\\.\PhysicalDrive1"
RAW host disk access VMDK file E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk created successfully.
In Linux
$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "~/linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "/dev/sda"
It will create a file with something around 1kb that is a link to the physical hard drive.
Then create a Virtual Machine as ever you do.
If you want to map only a partition
At Windows
\\.\Physicaldrive1 -partitions 1
(Disk start with 0, partitions
with 1)
At Linux (Much more intuitive)
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
etc.
Eventually you can get resolution issues
Eventually you can get resolution issues even after install vboxadditions, in my experience the problem is your /etc/X11/xorg.conf it is configured to your specific real hardware specs(I have a offboard GPU for example), least in my case I solve it simply removing this file (xorg auto configure at boot, only will not work if you set some specific setting), so run:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original && sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Reference
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=36694
https://romaimperator.com/?p=29