

The feature "Dynamic resolution update" was introduced in RDP 8.1. What we REALLY want (don't we, Dear Reader) is Dynamic Resolution and Resizing without Reconnection! Today you can just close and reconnect to change resolutions but I'd love to just resize the Ubuntu window like I do Windows 7/8/10 VM client windows. Login with your name and password (remember before when I said don't automatically login? This is why.) Now, BEFORE you click Connect, click "Show Options" and then "Local Resources." Under here, uncheck Smart Cards and Check "Drives."Ĭlick OK and Connect.and you get this weird dialog! You're actually RDP'ing into Ubuntu! Rather than using the historical weird Hyper-V Client stuff to talk to Ubuntu and struggle with video cards and resolutions, here you are literally just Remote Desktoping into Ubuntu using integrated open source xrdp! You'll see a resolution dialog.pick one! Go crazy! Do be aware that there are issues on 4k display but you can adjust within Ubuntu itself. Go over to Hyper-V Manager and right click on it and "Connect." Now, here, make sure you click "Require my password to login." What we want to do won't work with "Log in Automatically" and you don't want that anyway.Īfter you've created your VM and got it mostly setup, close the Hyper-V client window. So click create, start it up.get to the set up screen. You can quickly and easily create an Ubuntu VM from here and it's all handled, downloading, network switch, VM create, etc. Recently Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS showed up in this list.

Windows 10 includes Hyper-V Quick Create which has this suspiciously short list under "Select an operating system." Anytime a list has 1 or 2 items and some whitespace that means it will someday have n+1 list items. It's Windows 10 "1809" - that's 2018 and the 9th month. I installed the Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" - yes the name is stupid. If you wanted shared clipboards or shared disk drives, well, again, miracle or a ton of manual set up. If you wanted to get a higher (read: usable) resolution it would take a miracle. To be frank, historically Ubuntu has sucked on Window's Hyper-V. Here's me installing Ubuntu 10.4 on Windows 7 over 8 years ago. My Linux/Ubuntu bona fides go back a while. I use Docker for Windows which works amazingly and has it good perf but sometimes I want to test on a full Ubuntu Desktop.ĪSIDE: No joke.

I run Windows as my daily driver but I use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) all day long but WSL is just the command-line and has some perf issues with heavy file system work.
