[OpenIndiana-discuss] About installing latest build on win7 host

Robbie Crash sardonic.smiles at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 02:54:06 UTC 2013


Hyper-V is a feature available in recent versions of Windows Server above
2008 R2.

It's not available for any version of Windows 7; it is included with the
Professional or Enterprise of Windows 8.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> writes:
>
> > On 2013-07-15 21:40, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> Can anyone point me too a guide or similar for installing oi in a vm
> >> on a windows host?
> >>
> >> Or are the directions just the same as any other install?
> >
> > I'd say roughly the same... pick your virtualization software
> > (note you can only pick one at a time, and if it is not hyper-v
> > on a windows server with one installed, you must disable its
> > drivers from loading on boot), make a VM, install OI :)
>
> At risk of showing the full depth of my ignorance...I'm running a
> Sager NP8760 laptop (Clevo Mobo) Quad core i7 Q820, its got a few yrs
> on it... is it likely to have this hyper-v you mentioned?
>
> Or can I just assume I'll be making sure those drvrs don't load?
>
>
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