I seriously think that open source hypervisors scares the hell out of decision makers and most IT people in general.

Is everyone still stuck on Windows XP like Desktop? I keep hearing why not mate, cinnamon and so on. I've always felt at home using Unity/Gnome3. Heck, I wouldn't mind using Gnome 3 on Windows.

Visual Studio Code is pretty good. I'm always jumping between Atom and Visual Studio Code.

@Dominica said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

@black3dynamite said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

@scottalanmiller said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

Ah, yup, testing that just killed the laptop. That's definitely at least related to the issue.

Can't find a rotation lock on Cinnamon, so in the mean time, testing Gnome3 and LXQT on there. At least going to see if we can isolate the issue. Getting closer, though.

Gnome3 does have the rotation lock option.

Testing that now. First test, it didn't work. It rotated after locking then freaked out.

I've only tried it using Fedora 25 Gnome3 on HP ProBook 450 G3.

Finally finished switching over to Fedora 25 Workstation from Windows 10 at work. Windows VM is all setup with RSAT installed.

Watching Dark Matter and Wynonna Earp on Syfy.

@scottalanmiller said in Korora 25 Freezing on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:

Ah, yup, testing that just killed the laptop. That's definitely at least related to the issue.

Can't find a rotation lock on Cinnamon, so in the mean time, testing Gnome3 and LXQT on there. At least going to see if we can isolate the issue. Getting closer, though.

Gnome3 does have the rotation lock option.

Grilling some chicken and beef to have fiesta dinner with family and friends.

@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@black3dynamite said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@black3dynamite said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@black3dynamite said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

If it wasn't for XenSever, I could care less about using Xen.

Why is that? My experience is mostly the opposite, only found XS interesting recently and the maintenance of it made me essentially not care anymore. It's Xen that is really interesting. It's more advanced and has some VMware level features, like full fault tolerance that are removed in XS.

Because it was less of pain to get setup compare to my experience with Xen.

It's been a bit, but the big Xen distro was always Suse and getting it up and running is normally (or traditionally) nothing more than a checkbox on the install.

XS is popular because it installs as a distro, it's an "appliance" install.

It's been awhile but I remember trying Xen using Suse because of you. But my impatience got the best of me.

Hmmm.. any idea what issues you ran into? It's been a while since I did a new install.

I was more of an Ubuntu/unity user and jumping in head first trying to use Suse just didn't feel right with me.

@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@black3dynamite said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@black3dynamite said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

If it wasn't for XenSever, I could care less about using Xen.

Why is that? My experience is mostly the opposite, only found XS interesting recently and the maintenance of it made me essentially not care anymore. It's Xen that is really interesting. It's more advanced and has some VMware level features, like full fault tolerance that are removed in XS.

Because it was less of pain to get setup compare to my experience with Xen.

It's been a bit, but the big Xen distro was always Suse and getting it up and running is normally (or traditionally) nothing more than a checkbox on the install.

XS is popular because it installs as a distro, it's an "appliance" install.

It's been awhile but I remember trying Xen using Suse because of you. But my impatience got the best of me.

@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@black3dynamite said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

If it wasn't for XenSever, I could care less about using Xen.

Why is that? My experience is mostly the opposite, only found XS interesting recently and the maintenance of it made me essentially not care anymore. It's Xen that is really interesting. It's more advanced and has some VMware level features, like full fault tolerance that are removed in XS.

Because it was less of pain to get setup compare to my experience with Xen.

Whenever Xen is questioned, why only bring Amazon? Are there any SMB examples that is using Xen or XenServer without a doubt?

If it wasn't for XenSever, I could care less about using Xen.

As for KVM, I believe there are more community backing than Xen.

This might be something to take a look at.
https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php

This is pretty decent.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/virtual_active_directory_domain_controller_virtualization_hyperv(ws.10).aspx

Microsoft recommendations seems to take up multiple pages instead of just straight up say it from the beginning. I understand its necessary to go in further detail about the right way to configured a virtualized domain.

It like when asking a yes or no question. The answer becomes damn sentence.

That's why I enjoy these types of forums. Its quick and precise.

I think its easier, faster and safer to recover from a one domain controller vm setup than it is to recover from a physical domain controller.

It would help if Microsoft would also recommend to always virtualize domain controllers.

In case you have a mix of private and public network profiles use this command.

Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck - Force

SkipNetworkProfileCheck ignores any public network profiles so you can enable remote powershell successfully.

I'm watching BIG3 Basketball. Retired NBA players coaching retired NBA players.

@JaredBusch said in How would you build this:

@Tim_G said in How would you build this:

@JaredBusch said in How would you build this:

@Tim_G said in How would you build this:

It sounds like the hardware will just be running one VM. Built-in back up on Hyper-V Server 2016 all the way via the host, no issues there if you can use block-level storage for your backups. It's so much easier and faster to backup and restore the VM as a whole anyways... no VM agent needed. Also, you get the option of "production" checkpoints (snapshots) on 2016. That's definitely noteworthy.

What specific features are you talking about here? I have Hyper-V 2016 server up in a lab environment but have yet to actually test anything.

I mentioned two in there. Windows Server Backup, and "Production Checkpoints".

I was not sure if those were that actual names of the features. I will have to check into them.

Obviously Windows Server Backup used to be a specific thing in full installs of Windows Server. Likewise, Checkpoints are a standard thing, but I have not heard about Production checkpoints.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/checkpoints

Windows 10 and Server 2016 Hyper-V
Standard Checkpoints -- takes a snapshot of the virtual machine and virtual machine memory state at the time the checkpoint is initiated. A snapshot is not a full backup and can cause data consistency issues with systems that replicate data between different nodes such as Active Directory.

Production Checkpoints -- uses Volume Shadow Copy Service or File System Freeze on a Linux virtual machine to create a data-consistent backup of the virtual machine. No snapshot of the virtual machine memory state is taken.