It was acting funny on my computer even before the conversion. Dual screens, 1 was black 1 was a GUI. You had to click somewhere in the black screen to get it to interact in the other screen. That magically went away (I didn't do anything but just reboot the machine a few times). Doesn't seem stable enough to dump more time into it.

@Dashrender said:

@BBigford said:

@Dashrender said:

@BBigford said:

It is supposed to have a GUI,

did the process for the GUI launch?

and even the CLI has no commands that are executable.

Not sure what you mean? if you type ls it doesn't show up on the command line? Sounds like a console problem. that would be like the keyboard isn't working on a baremetal install.

If you type something like hostname, it comes back as unrecognized. That same thing happens with any command.

So it booted - but now any command you type comes back as unrecognized? Sounds like a corrupt something.. weird that it could boot though.

Yeah. I think I'll just tell him he's going to be rebuilding it. The multiple screens acts funny on his computer sometimes if I remember right.

@Dashrender said:

@BBigford said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Well since that didn't work, have you tried Disk2VHD from within the VM?

That I have not tried. Was trying to stay focused on doing the conversion from within VirtualBox.

Does Disk2VHD even work on a Linux box?

I thought Dustin was suggesting that you run disk2VHD inside VirtualBox - that's the VM he's talking about - I think.

Yeah the Linux box is the VM. I think Dustin thought maybe I was using a Windows VM. The screenshot is of the VM in Hyper-V booting (RHEL).

@Dashrender said:

@BBigford said:

It is supposed to have a GUI,

did the process for the GUI launch?

and even the CLI has no commands that are executable.

Not sure what you mean? if you type ls it doesn't show up on the command line? Sounds like a console problem. that would be like the keyboard isn't working on a baremetal install.

If you type something like hostname, it comes back as unrecognized. That same thing happens with any command.

@DustinB3403 said:

I didn't know this was a Linux VM.

Um. not sure if it does or does not work on Linux....

My fault. I forgot to put that in the body of the OC. I added it.

@DustinB3403 said:

Well since that didn't work, have you tried Disk2VHD from within the VM?

That I have not tried. Was trying to stay focused on doing the conversion from within VirtualBox.

Does Disk2VHD even work on a Linux box?

@DustinB3403 said:

Here's a guide on how to do this.

Have you tried a similar process to this, or did you just attempt to copy the VirtualBox files and import them directly into Hyper-V?

That's the exact process I did. Then copy it over to the Hyper-V server. From there just setting up a new virtual machine in Hyper-V, opting to attach an existing VHD.

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Keep in mind we do lots of cloud stuff and have never had issues like this with any other providers.

Yeah... zero that we've ever seen with DO or Vultr, only tiny ones with RS and very rare. Never seen anything like Azure. And never met other people so often with issues.

I recommend TONS of people to DO. Haven't tried Vultr yet though. RS is super expensive. Do you find any benefits with them over DO? I've heard some things like console access, but haven't looked into it.

DO, RS and Vultr all have console access. That's the same. RS has a slightly different performance profile. The big deals with RS are the full range of features that they offer. But these days, their benefits are rapidly dwindling.

Nice, thanks. I'll have to take another look. I've simply never recommended RS due to the price. DO's pricing is extremely affordable for small-medium businesses and people wanting to simply setup a test lab. I haven't broken down the pricing for medium-large scale, it just didn't seem logical based on the price (though the company I'm at now doesn't buy semi-new servers, www.insightsystemsonline.com sometimes has some really nice servers with a 3 year warranty). I looked last week and their inventory is nothing to write home about. The company I'm at now only buys straight from Dell.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Keep in mind we do lots of cloud stuff and have never had issues like this with any other providers.

Yeah... zero that we've ever seen with DO or Vultr, only tiny ones with RS and very rare. Never seen anything like Azure. And never met other people so often with issues.

I recommend TONS of people to DO. Haven't tried Vultr yet though. RS is super expensive. Do you find any benefits with them over DO? I've heard some things like console access, but haven't looked into it.

A dev has a .vmdk drive in VirtualBox (this is Red Hat Enterprise Linux). It has 2 screens loaded. I disabled all but the primary and did a copy to .vhd (graphical, I couldn't get the convert to vhd in CLI to work).

Importing the .vhd into Hyper-V looks like the following picture. It is supposed to have a GUI, and even the CLI has no commands that are executable.

@scottalanmiller said:

Never even knew that they made this.

It had a cult following. I initially thought it was garbage. Absolutely no reason to hate it other than it took up precious bookmark space. It soon grew on me. Also available as a standalone app within Windows.

@Minion-Queen said:

@Dashrender They just suck that bad is my opinion. If they are screwing with us, well sucks to be them. We post online about these outages every time they happen. And now steer clients clear of them as much as possible.

With outages like that... I'll never be able to propose off-site cloud.

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm moving to the second world in ONE WEEK!!

Where's that? Also, do you already have citizenship in that country and how long did that take?

@Dashrender said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Mint hack? I've heard of a number of security problems with open source things, but completely missed the Mint one. Got any handy reference?

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

Yeah I saw that one. Compromised the site then uploaded the hacked ISO. Yeesh.

@scottalanmiller said:

Good choices generally are...

• Mint
• OpenSuse Tumbleweed
• Fedora

In that order. Zorin is supposed to be really good, too.

I've heard great things about Zorin. Have yet to jump on and try it though.

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Are you talking about their site getting compromised?

@travisdh1 said:

@BBigford said:

@travisdh1 said:

@BBigford Mint. We did it! (Only 7 users tho.)

I saw in an older post of yours I believe, you are using Samba4 for your file share, no central directory. Right?

Right.

What are you doing for email?

@travisdh1 said:

@BBigford Mint. We did it! (Only 7 users tho.)

I saw in an older post of yours I believe, you are using Samba4 for your file share, no central directory. Right?

Dreaming here... Office of 120 gets to switch to Linux for their desktops...

What do you use?

Mint?
Debian?
Ubuntu? (probably not)
...or maybe not even in that tree? Majaro? Red Hat Desktop?
Something else?