My adventures with Ubuntu on Hyper-V. Part 1.

I really like Windows 8. I like Metro Modern UI, tiles and the new Start Screen. And I like playing games. That's why I use Windows on my personal hardware. But in my workplace I use Ubuntu. On my old laptop, I have used the dual boot. But it was annoying to constantly synchronise mails, chats, login data and files... And I always had a slow Internet connection, so downloading two copies of everything was painfully slow...

When I was buying a new machine, I have decided it has to be powerful enough to run a virtual machine. I've bought a laptop with 32GBs of RAM and a Core i7 processor. And I wanted to tinker with Windows Phone apps, so I have upgraded Windows 8 to Pro version to use Hyper-V. I have followed instructions on how to install Ubuntu on Hyper-V and it worked. Almost. When I have used "external virtual switch" my host Windows 8 system lost Internet connection. Even, if I have checked the checkbox for sharing the connection. But it was half of a success: guest systems could connect to the Internet.

I have played with settings for some time and finally using "internal virtual switch" with setting sharing my Wi-Fi from Control Panel worked. If only I could use Ubuntu in full screen with utilising all my monitor's pixels...