Category Archives: Virtualization

Nano Server.

I’ve been attempting for days to get a VHD of Nano Server (Windows 2016 TP3) up and running from the instructions on Microsoft and on the Microsoft Virtual Academy. I’ve been having issues with the new-nanoserverimage.ps1 just quitting and not giving any error text back. I knew it wasn’t working as the image wasn’t getting… Read More »

Virtualbox, El Capitan and BootCamping Windows 10

Unfortunately so far, the method I used to use virtualbox to start a Windows Bootcamp Guest at http://www.techfrontier.co.uk/wp-admin/post.php?post=544&action=edit doesn’t work. The main sticking point seems to be attaching the EFI partition to the vmdk file. Any ideas anyone….still trying.

Messing about with Ubuntu 11.10 under VMware

I like to mess about with other OSes in my spare time and have recently downloaded the latest Ubuntu release. I’ve been a fan of Ubuntu since about v4, this time around they’ve changed the interface and I was a bit lost… I use VMware Server 2 at home on my Windows 7 “server” as… Read More »