My adventures with Ubuntu on Hyper-V. Part 3.

As I was forced to revisit my Hyper-V and Ubuntu configuration earlier this week, today I have decided to try run Ubuntu in fullscreen one more time. After searching the Internet I have found working solution on Ask Ubuntu. On my configuration it required two steps:

1. Installing linux-image-extra-virtual package
   

   sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-virtual

2. Updating GRUB's configuration file (/etc/default/grub) by changing one line:
   

   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=hyperv_fb:1680x1050" 

3. Updating GRUB' configuration by executing the command:
   

   sudo update-grub

After rebooting Ubuntu I can finally use it in fullscreen mode!

Windows Universal Apps

I had plenty of work with my PhD studies and my job so I had not had time to install Visual Studio Express. But on the Build conference, Microsoft showed new Windows' features. Updated Visual Studio can create universal apps for both: Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1! Although I have not had time to tinker with it long enough, I have managed to create a universal hub app, build it and run on Windows Phone Emulator. And it worked! But after looking into Solution Explorer:

 I have noticed that the Universal Windows Apps are not something entirely new. They are based on an idea, which was known at least from the time when Visual Studio 2013 was published! It was presented on MSDN: share common code and use a separate project for presentation only. Updated Visual Studio mostly eases create of the separate project and shared library and debugging code for the Windows Phone. Although it is not a revolution but an evolution of ideas known for some time, it is welcomed. Maybe it would allow consistent experience across different Windows platforms and faster apps delivery!

My adventures with Ubuntu on Hyper-V. Part 2.

Yesterday I upgraded Windows 8 and installed Visual Studio Express 2013 Update 2 RC. Today I tried to run Ubuntu on Hyper-V. It worked but without an Internet connection... The first thing which I have done, it was to search the Internet to see if upgrading Windows could break something with Hyper-V. I have found nothing...

Searching for problems with Hyper-V itself and changing network setting also was no good. I was ready to give up when I have remembered that I have also installed Visual Studio with Windows Phone Emulator. Running Emulator for the first time created a virtual network adapter and after its creation, I was able to reconfigure Hyper-V and restore Internet connection in Ubuntu. Why without running the emulator it was impossible to configure networking in Hyper-V is still a mystery for me... The installer could have created a network adapter during the installation process and not delay this step to first execution of emulator...