Skype Today, we’ve made running Linux even easier on Windows 10. With the feature added in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we have partnered with Ubuntu and added a virtual machine image so in a few quick minutes, you’ll be up and developing.

This is available now – just type “Hyper-V Quick Create” in your start menu! Please note, this feature does require Hyper-V. Please head over to the docs to and enabling it. On top of running Ubuntu in a virtual machine, you can use Windows Subsystem for Linux.

A mini image is an optical disc image file in a format that fakes the disk's content to bypass CD/DVD copy protection. Because they are the full size of the original disk, Mini Images are stored instead. Mini Images are small, on the order of kilobytes, and contain just the information necessary to bypass CD-checks.

WSL is a Windows 10 feature that enables you to run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows., and you can run Ubuntu, Suse, Debian and other distros as well. And if you want to build your own distro and use that, you can too! Updated September 17, 2018 8:03 am Tags. I see this works to give an enhanced session which is much better. I found that if you picked the incorrect screen resolution, after restarting Ubuntu it didn’t prompt me again for the resolution I wanted to use which was annoying to figure out how to change this setting. Also, when you go full screen, all it does is put whatever sized Ubuntu you picked into a full screen layout, instead of actually making Ubuntu full screen.

It makes finding what you want quick and easy. This is great because you do not have to sift through options and commands that your current program is incapable of doing. How do you control the smart bar for new macbook air.

VmWare/Virtual box have provided that auto sizing feature out of the box for as long as I can remember. Also what is with Hyper-V and no sound on the guest OS?

How can I have Ubuntu give me sound? Hi, I had similar issue – when login to xrdp, the connection is lost. When you install ubuntu, you need to ensure you set a account password and to NOT automatically login. You can change this setting quite easily, if you re-connect to the VM (so you get the xrdp login), then, in the window toolbar, press the ‘Basic Session’ icon (you will need to hover over the toolbar icons to find it). The in ubuntu, open the ‘Settings’ app, go into ‘details’ -> ‘users’, and switch the ‘Automatic login’ to off (you will need to press the ‘unlock’ icon in the window title bar to do this).

I was waiting for this. I used the scripts a while back to create my own and it worked but there were some small issues. The quick create worked great however disk size on the image is too small. I expanded the size of the boot drive before the first boot but it did not take advantage of the additional space. I have tried everything to resize the partition and they all fail. I used the gpartd live CD and several other tools. Every one of them gave me some sort of error when trying to resize.

I quickly filled up the disk space with the developer tools that I installed and started getting disk space warnings. It would be great to have an option to select the size of the partition. I realize that this is part of the image that is downloaded so that would mean potentially multiple images.

Even though OS X can read Windows formatted hard drives just fine, the opposite is still not true, even with Windows 10. Granted, OS X can’t write to a Windows formatted disk, but at least it can read the contents of the drive and you can copy the data to your Mac computer. Windows has absolutely no support for the Mac hard disk file format (HFS+).

This means that if you connect a Mac formatted drive to Windows, you’ll simply get a blank drive letter and a message asking to format the disk. If you click Cancel, you’ll just get a message stating that the volume does not contain a recognized file system.

I’ve already written about how, if your external, you might have to use the exFAT file format, which both Windows and Mac support, however, this requires formatting the drive and copying all the data back on. Another solution is to that way, but this requires a decent amount of setup. So are there any other options? Well, thankfully yes. If you use Macs and PCs heavily in your setup, it might be worth spending some money on a program called MacDrive. MacDrive is a great program that allows you to use Mac formatted disks on your Windows PC like a normal drive.