Bye Microsoft. This is the last time an update will screw me.

[jinjuku]

I went to open my Network Emulation environment begining of the week and Nested VM's no longer work in VMWare Player Pro 16. MS moved some virtualization security add on component to the kernel and borked me.

I just spent the better part of the day spinning up an HPE server with Ubuntu, 128GB RAM, 32 core Xeon, all flash RAID5, and will soon be implementing NAS with iSCSI for my mass storage.

I exited the M$ server sphere in 2014 because of this sleepless night bulshit and now I'm done on desktop.

 

[j_garcia]

Whatever that update we got yesterday, it cause MANY issues. It hosed my network connection while I was IN A MEETING. I thought my dock had died, turns out it actually just decided my USB-C port wasn't needed A few angry reboots later, I got some stuff back, but no network and it took a while to figure out that's what it did. I don't actually know WHY it did this.

 

[jinjuku]

Whatever that update we got yesterday, it cause MANY issues. It hosed my network connection while I was IN A MEETING. I thought my dock had died, turns out it actually just decided my USB-C port wasn't needed A few angry reboots later, I got some stuff back, but no network and it took a while to figure out that's what it did. I don't actually know WHY it did this.

I heard the 'Just Roll It Back'. That phrase over the years has made me want to gag. I rolled it back all right. As in all the way back to a non-M$ environment. I'm converting my current Win10 box over to a VM for continuity but will be off of it ASAP.

 

[lovinthehd]

I wonder if I got one? No issues so far....otoh I have no idea what you said in your OP either

 

[rnatalli]

I dumped MS years ago and haven’t regretted it since.

 

[jinjuku]

I wonder if I got one? No issues so far....otoh I have no idea what you said in your OP either

I use VMWare Workstation Pro to run a product called Eve-NG. It's a Linux OS piece that you can either run on bare metal or a hypervisor. So I run the latter.

You can used it to load Cisco, HPE Aruba, Fortigate, pFsense, Mikrotik etc Switch, Router, Firewall images so you don't have to literally deal with a 6 foot tall rack full of hardware. You just run their images in an emulated environment.

The nested operation comes from the fact that you can spin up Eve-NG, create a directory for the switch, router, firewall you want to play with and simply copy the image to said directory and Eve-NG will pass through the virtualization layers needed so you are only running one instance in VMWare Player. Makes is easier to backup, snapshot etc...

 

[lovinthehd]

I use VMWare Workstation Pro to run a product called Eve-NG. It's a Linux OS piece that you can either run on bare metal or a hypervisor. So I run the latter.

You can used it to load Cisco, HPE Aruba, Fortigate, pFsense, Mikrotik etc Switch, Router, Firewall images so you don't have to literally deal with a 6 foot tall rack full of hardware. You just run their images in an emulated environment.

The nested operation comes from the fact that you can spin up Eve-NG, create a directory for the switch, router, firewall you want to play with and simply copy the image to said directory and Eve-NG will pass through the virtualization layers needed so you are only running one instance in VMWare Player. Makes is easier to backup, snapshot etc...

LOL thanks but I still have no clue as to what all that is. Good luck!

 

[slipperybidness]

I've been fighting MS10 updates vs. my sound card for at least a year now. It just seems to be hit or miss!

Some updates, my audio is fine, some kill my audio completely and I have to roll back. I think I'm just gonna roll is back and never put that PC on the internet again.

Granted, this PC and sound card are pushing 10 years old or so, but still very annoying when my system works fine, then it suddenly does not.

 

[GO-NAD!]

LOL thanks but I still have no clue as to what all that is. Good luck!

I going to assume that since neither of us has any idea what he's talking about, neither of us is affected.

 

[panteragstk]

I use VMWare Workstation Pro to run a product called Eve-NG. It's a Linux OS piece that you can either run on bare metal or a hypervisor. So I run the latter.

You can used it to load Cisco, HPE Aruba, Fortigate, pFsense, Mikrotik etc Switch, Router, Firewall images so you don't have to literally deal with a 6 foot tall rack full of hardware. You just run their images in an emulated environment.

The nested operation comes from the fact that you can spin up Eve-NG, create a directory for the switch, router, firewall you want to play with and simply copy the image to said directory and Eve-NG will pass through the virtualization layers needed so you are only running one instance in VMWare Player. Makes is easier to backup, snapshot etc...

I have no need for Eve-NG, but that's some slick stuff. I don't do networking for a living either, but this might help me with some home stuff.

 

[Eppie]

Yes, that's a nice setup jinjuku has. My fear is that MS borks support for Oracle VirtualBox. Still running some mission critical software inside that but it's been rock solid for years.