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Exactly, I'm upvoting this to prevent poor souls stuck on Windows from looking for these nice solutions...

• cm2187 8y ago
  But can't the poor souls stuck on windows use hyper-v and RDP into the vm?
  • jki275 8y ago
    I use hyper-v and rdp every day, very happy with both. I even run Linux VMs in hyper-v.
    • novaRom 8y ago
      Can you run singularity-container or docker in your Linux guest?
      • jki275 8y ago
        I haven't had reason to try, but I can't imagine a good reason why one couldn't.
      • coredog64 8y ago
        I would hope so, as that is what the Win10 version of Docker-for-Windows does.
      • codereflection 8y ago
        Yes
    • border43 8y ago
      I've had nothing but issues trying to run Ubuntu in Hyper-V. Even the Windows Ubuntu LTS image that comes with the quick-create didn't work for very long. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I've never has success with non-windows OS's.
      • jki275 8y ago
        What host version? I'm running 18.04 on Server 2016, for reference, did absolutely nothing special or unique, downloaded the iso, built the machine and loaded it and it's up running dns & unifi controller 24/7 for my home network with no issues.
  • vbezhenar 8y ago
    You need Windows Pro as a guest to RDP.
    • candiodari 8y ago
      Not if you use the Virtualbox extension pack to VNC (that's the free/GPL extension pack, not the Oracle one). That will work with anything. Hell, it'll work with a DOS 1.0 guest. (and yes, it's VNC, not RDP, I believe the oracle extension pack actually allows for Virtualbox to do RDP as well. But you can stay GPL-only and still support headless VNC. I believe phpVirtualbox uses it with beautiful results) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=85886 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=85886
  • akulbe 8y ago
    Can't you only RDP (and here is the qualifier) out-of-the-box with an "Enhanced Guest" VM, like what comes with some of the later Windows 10 builds, like 1809? Otherwise, don't you have to do everything by hand to configured xrdp on the Linux guest?
    • cm2187 8y ago
      Well technically hyper-v comes with its own terminal, but granted it kind of sucks and I wouldn't use continuously.
  • cpach 8y ago
    I tried Hyper-V for a while but I found the network configuration really cumbersome. Therefore I went back to Virtualbox but I should probably request my employer to buy a license for Vmware.
    • cm2187 8y ago
      Is it because you switched frequently from one adapter to another (like wifi to ethernet)? Otherwise I don't think I ever had any problem with the network configuration.
      • jstarks 8y ago
        In Windows 10, we provide a NAT network option by default. This should work seamlessly even if you switch between WiFi and Ethernet. So even this problem should go away for most people now.
        • cm2187 8y ago
          Didn't the NAT get pulled from hyper-V?
          • jstarks 8y ago
            I don’t think so. It’s only there by default on client, not server, though.
  • Narishma 8y ago
    Hyper-V only works on the Pro versions of Windows.
  • Silhouette 8y ago
    I think Hyper-V is Windows 8+ (or similar generations of Windows Server), isn't it? Much of the Windows world is still on Windows 7, and it would be rather ironic if they were updating because of concerns about software phoning home...
  • mr_toad 8y ago
    Hyper V requires a Windows Pro license last time I checked. That’s significantly more expensive that VirtualBox.
• gaius 8y ago
  WSL has supplanted VirtualBox for actually all of my use cases.