Sunday, June 7, 2020

YUMI flash drive multi-OS installer

You can use this, but one I found later, Ventoy, is even better. 

Create a bootable ISO of Ubuntu using YUMI.  Then add a bootable ISO of Slax later.  Then add a bootable ISO of Windows 10 64-bit later.  When you boot to the YUMI flash drive, a menu appears and you simply select which one to install.

The beauty of YUMI is that it allows you to have a dynamic flash drive you can use to install different operating systems.  I say dynamic because you don't have to create it with all ofthe operating system choices at once, you can add ISOs (and even remove them) as needed. 

Wonderful software.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Make Hyper-V VM guest management so much better

I'm sure I'm late to the party with this, but it has been a game changer for me.  Normally when you 'Connect' to a VM via the HyperV console, the interface is a bummer. 

You can't copy/paste
You can't access network drives from the VM unless the VM NIC is enabled

You can easily change the default behavior to give you a more RDP-like experience when connecting to VMs.  From an elevated Powershell, do:
Set-VMHost -EnableEnhancedSessionMode $True

Then to connect to a guest, right-click and click 'Connect'.  Right away you'll see you can set the screen resolution (use full screen), then click 'Show Options' for attaching local resources.  The world is your oyster.




Use textverified.com to receive text messages

Great for expats.  Allows you to temporarily rent a US phone number -- an actual one, not a VoIP one, so you can receive sms - a txt message...