Windows 10: Configure Win 7 using AIK/ADK on WIn 10?

Excellent. I thought about doing as much.

As for actually capturing the image, it's actually no sweat - since the USB has .ISOs of all the stuff I may use in the field, I can just configure the VM to boot from one of the .ISOs that I have on there directly. Problem solved.

However, the problem I have right now is that the VM I have created will not install any drivers and cannot get Net access.

D'oh!

 

You have created the Hyper-V virtual switches for network access, and set up one in vm settings (tutorial, Part Three)?

 

Yup. I'll go back and make sure I didn't skip a step (always my first go to check, esp when dealing with all of this at work lol).

 

Figured it out - I had selected the wrong Ethernet port. Hence no access.

 

Well, not really. The VM keeps grabbing an IPAPI address instead of one from our network. Now, that is not really a major problem, as I can simply create a few .VHDs of the install sections that I need and make this work pretty quickly, and truth be told, that would be a better way to control the VM, but if I had it working on the network, then I could map to the network drive with the app installers just as you did in your Win7 Tut and go from there....

IO may just start all over from scratch and see if I had actually missed a step somewhere. The bad part is that I cannot devote my time to this until after hours because I have other thing I have to do every day - like take calls :S

 

I cannot think of any reason why your vm cannot access your network and map network drives. Never had such issues. I am sorry but in this issue I do not believe I can assist you.

 

It must be something weird about not having the virtual switch configured correctly when I initially created the VM. After correctly configuring the switch, and then deleting the VM (and respective HD) and starting from scratch, it saw the network as soon as it booted into audit mode.

Also, I wonder if this would be of any use here in Hyper-V?

How to share files between a Hyper-V host and its virtual machines :: Virtual Platforms :: Admin Tips :: Windows Server 2008 :: Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base :: KBase Tips :: WindowsNetworking.com

 

OK, figured it out. The Win 7 tut example added the user: section without the / and my username contains a space, so I had to enclose both domain and user in quotation marks.

However, using that other link, as long as I just create a share to the location, I can access it over the network *Smile

So, I am using a hybrid solution

 

Now I am in the middle of installing apps. I have Office 2013 x64 installing, and it has gotten to the point where it usually sits for about 15 minutes without doing anything, but in the VM it has been almost 2 hours and nothing is happening....

After this would be simple updates, and I am debating on whether I should do it online, or if I should do it through the WSUS Offline Updater database I have on my thumb drive - takes about the same amount of time either way, so....

 

Sounds like you might reboot and start Office installation again?

 

I had to bump up the stats for the VM in order to get Office to finish. Specifically, amount of memory and number of processors.

 

This helps a bit, too:

 

Hi there.

IMO the EASIEST way for creating shares on a VM if you are using a Windows 8 or Windows 10 HOST is to use (on the Host) Storage Spaces. That way you don't have to worry about sharing Volumes or moving individual folders to the "Shared folder". With Storage spaces you can dynamically add (or else) as many volumes as you like and they can have different volume sizes.

Then simply share the storage space as a folder. Sub folders within the storage space will be shared automatically.

Should work for VM's on a HYPER-V Host too. (In fact the VM itself can be contained within a Storage space too).

HYPER-V handles storage spaces as a native file system anyway so your VM will probably perform better if it's on the same physical machine as the HYPER-V system rather than as a VM on a discrete HDD or partition.

Installing Office 2010 (x64 or x86) on a W7 VM is normally fairly fast and problem free. In general whatever Virtual Machine software you use and provided it has enough RAM available the main performance problem is usually SLOW HDD's. Slow HDD's KILL the host performance too.

I'd suggest if you can is to install your HOST system on an SSD -- just the OS and programs and run your VM from a separate set of HDD's (or better Storage spaces as I've pointed out). If you can afford another SSD then install the VM on the SSD. Don't then in this case add the SSD to the Storage space but keep the shared folders in a storage space.

Unless you are using an SSD for your OS running any sort of VM from the SAME HDD as te OS will generally result in poorish performance especially if the HOST is doing I/O bound tasks too at the same time. You can get away with it though on an SSD.

Cheers
jimbo

 

I thought about setting the affinity higher, but my (work) laptop is not anywhere cutting edge. I'm designing a laptop that I want to get as my permanent solution (Not a Malibal - I showed my boss the $10K price and he said "Good luck.") but until then I am on this machine - a Dell Inspiron 15 with a Celeron 1007U processor that I've bumped to 8 GB of RAM. At the very least I am trying to get him to spend $100 on an SSD for this machine if not a whole new machine....

I monitored system resource usage while the VM was doing various tasks by using the Summary view of the performance tab in Task Manager, and CPU and HDD activity were pushing the limits. Hence my solution.

Thanks for the info on Storage Spaces - I skipped 8 so I have not even played with them at all. I'll give that a go.

As for installing Office 2013 - I've installed it here literally 50+ times, so I well know the speed, as well as where it 'seems' to hang - problem is that in this VM, the first two installs had gone well past the hour mark, and I couldn't wait. I use RMPrepUSB / Easy2Boot and keep .ISOs of everything I need on it, and I am using a 128 GB USB 3 UFD, so installs go really, really quickly on my 4 generation old i7 965 EE with 12 GB RAM based desktop, but on these laptops that we're rolling out (not Inspirons, actually Lenovo E545 / E555) an install from scratch takes less than 20 minutes total. On the Inspiron (host) it took about 25. So, I figured double that for the VM when I gave it only 1 GB of RAM and a single virtual processor.

Nope. But bumping it up to 4 GB and 2 virtual processors, with 25% reserved and max of 75%, made it finish in just about the same amount of time as it took on the host.

As for the SSD - yeah, that is exactly what I am going to be doing. But I have to make do with what I currently have until I have said SSD....

At home, I break my system across 2 SSDs on my SATA 3 ports (using the original tutorial that Kari wrote at 7F for customizing Win7 via System Audit Mode). System SSD is a 256 GB Crucial, and the \user & \programdata trees reside on my older Intel Cherryville 180 GB. That Intel rarely gets over 45 GB used, so at home that would be the optimum place for VHDs. Plus, I recycled my old original Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD and put it in this system as well, on a SATA II port, and I have 3 7200 rpm mech drives, so I have quite a few options for running VMs away from the OS drive, even if it is my fastest drive on the system.

At any rate, Time to fiddle with my answer file.

 

Interesting tidbit - finally got Win10 installed on my desktop at home - in order to get Hyper-V working, I had to disable The Execute Disable Bit setting - otherwise it kept going into a loop.

And Audit mode failed 100% of the time - regardless of BIOS settings (tried many, many different combinations).

However, now I have Hyper-V set at home so I can remote into the home machine and build my images, then pull them onto jump drives.