My hardware supports Hyper-V. I turned on the Hyper-V feature in WIN10 (upgraded from 8.1), and rebooted but it killed Windows. Was anyone else successful turning on Hyper-V in WIN10? Be warned it destroyed mine, but I want to know if it is just me or if it is something that will need to be patched.
I opted to install Ubuntu on my main machine (I have it on laptops, but never my desktop). I'm already a little frustrated with it. Simple things like changing the install directory of Steam games to a different drive are not easy. xRDP has proved to be a challenge as well and no-ip only appears to have a terminal application for their dns program. I'm trying really hard with sticking with it but I hate having to troubleshoot every single thing I want to do. I do that for a living with Windows, I don't want to do it when I come home. /end of linux rant.
Were you able to boot into safe mode and disable Hyper-V? I've had to do that on Windows 8.1 when moving hard disks to new machines as Hyper-V caused Windows to blue screen on boot until it was disabled and then set back up again.
If you can't get it working on Windows 10 yet (maybe there are still some bugs?) you could take a look at vmware player v12 that was recently released. It's free for personal use and I've successfully got Server 2012 R2 running in a VM running Hyper-V. Nested virtualisation is great :-)
VMware Player is also available for Linux so if you do stick with Ubuntu but need to practice on Hyper-V labs you will be able to.
I didn't have anything important on the WIN10 machine (except for apache which I can rebuild on Ubuntu), and I've always wanted to see how Linux handles my graphics card so I gave it a shot on my desktop instead of rebuilding WIN10.
When I do eventually migrate back to WIN10, anyone know if I can just do a clean WIN10 install with my WIN8.1 license key?
If you installed Win 10 over the top of 8.1 e.g. upgraded from an existing install and then activated my understanding is that a fresh install of Win 10 will activate fine.
Yeah I figured it would be ok (made a USB of WIN10 today). I'll probably install it tonight. I really want to like Ubuntu (as a main desktop pc - it is great for old laptops), but using it as a power user is like constantly trying to swim upstream.
I had an issue where I forgot to enable the virtualization when I installed virtualbox and had to restore from restore point. Alltoght hyperv did warn me to turn it on when I installed it. There should be a restore point created possibly right before you installed the hyper-v feature.