@Joel said in Hyper V Image reset on startup/shutdown + NIC Settings:

Hi Guys
Wonder if you can help share thoughts on this.
A client of ours has a technical team that often like to test new routers, factory reset them and set them up for small remote sites. The tricky thing is, these guys should not be local admins on their computer (needed to change NIC settings etc and configure static ip's etc).

I was wondering how we can get around this and thought we could have a Hyper V solution installed on their laptops with a Windows 10 image - which they have full admin access too and could simply play around and do whatever they want in that environment (including configuring a Local router). My questions are:

1. can we pass through NIC cards on the hyper V image? So if they plug in Ethernet cable to the laptop and into a local router, they can see this within the VM image and change/configure things from there?

2. Would it be possible to have that VM Image reset each time they finish? IE. Can it reset back to the base image each time the VM is either started or shut down?

Let me know thoughts on this.
Thanks
Joel

1. Yes

2. Yes, via a script, using event log that looks for a VM action can revert to specified checkpoint.

For example:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/05/raspberry-pi-4-8gb-ram

OMG, that's what I've been waiting for!

what will you do with it?

An always-on headless device hooked to the physical network at home at the router... and/or to the TV, not sure yet.

@WLS-ITGuy said in VMWare 6.5 to 6.7...:

@scottalanmiller said in VMWare 6.5 to 6.7...:

You download the latest KVM from Fedora. Problem solved.

This answer is about as useful as the ones where the guy says he has to use IE/Edge due to corporate policy and someone answers "use Firefox, Problem Solved!"

But it also solves all the future VMWare related issues and annoyances at the same time as resolving your current VMWare problem... I'd say it's a no-brainer solution.

@warren-stanley said in chocolatey by any other name???:

Just had a quick look at whats available, I'm on an Insider build so winget is installed

PS C:\> (winget search).count
169

Apparently there's issues with dependency-resolution though.

Nothing MS comes out with is a viable production-usable solution for at least a couple years.

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Pete-S said in Non-IT News Thread:

More than half of elderly Covid-19 victims in Sweden have died in care homes.

Sweden, with 10m inhabitants, has kept more of society open than is the case in most of Europe.

I had wondered how Sweden's approach to handling Covid-19 was working since they took a different approach compared to the rest of the world. Their death rate (based on the numbers the BBC reports in that article) is about 0.04%.

Most of the deaths were nursing home deaths due to bad handling in just that single aspect. It's no way reflective of "how the whole thing was handled".

I'm not criticizing any aspect of the deaths or how they've handled anything. I don't know enough. I've been more curious how their approach to handling things was going to work compared to the rest of the world's "Let's shut everything down" plan. Their infection rate appears to be rather low based on what is listed here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries.

~30,000 cases out of 10,000,000 people is pretty low based on what experts were telling us would happen.

What's really needed is a number of completed tests to get a more accurate picture. You can't report on cases if you don't test, and misattributing deaths is not only easy, but happening on purpose.

I'm guessing that with Sweden's medical system that they probably have better data than the US. Could be wrong on that one. Maybe @Obsolesce would have a better perspective?

You may find this very informative

Youtube Video

@jmoore said in Take Flight with Scott Alan Miller: Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@scottalanmiller What microphone and type are you looking at?

Otherwise, the numbers would be insane compared to everywhere else in the world all things considered , but that's not the case when you account for the societal differences.

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Pete-S said in Non-IT News Thread:

More than half of elderly Covid-19 victims in Sweden have died in care homes.

Sweden, with 10m inhabitants, has kept more of society open than is the case in most of Europe.

I had wondered how Sweden's approach to handling Covid-19 was working since they took a different approach compared to the rest of the world. Their death rate (based on the numbers the BBC reports in that article) is about 0.04%.

Most of the deaths were nursing home deaths due to bad handling in just that single aspect. It's no way reflective of "how the whole thing was handled".

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching "Spirited Away" with the kids.

My daughters were discussing that movie last night at dinner.

It came up recommended in Netflix. My wife heard of it and said it is really good, but none of us had seen it.

We watched the first half before my son couldn't sit still any longer. We liked it.