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Windows Technical Preview (Windows 10) Bugs, Glitches and Good Things
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m4v3r1ck
macrumors 68030
Thanks Gav,
I meant disk corruption when direct accessing spinners in my Mac from within a VM. When I'm not sure, I hit the brakes! ;-)
Cheers
It seems like I can't use Bitlocker in a VM, at least according to VMware and Microsoft. Has anyone else tried it and been successful?
I may give TrueCrypt a try...
I may give TrueCrypt a try...
You can use bitlocker if you want and store the key on a USB or virtual floppy and will be prompted to use password. You need to turn off TPM in group policy.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/Q_28505684.html
What you can't do is a native VHD boot (i.e. without using hypervisor). In this case you can't boot if either the volume the VHD is on or the VHD itself are encrypted using bitlocker.
Thanks, though I cannot see the answer on the link because I don't have an account on that site, and I really don't want to sign up either.
Gav Mack
macrumors 68020
I wouldn't either - that site has always been a recipe for email spam and they must pay Google to keep them high up on the search hits. The Microsoft and VMware support sites and forums will be free of all that - with real experts too 🙂
Encryption though I would definitely try it out on a standalone Windows system, as with a Mac running it in a VM you would encrypt the OS X volumes anyway.
Yeah, I have Filevault running so in reality the data on the VM's (which there isn't any but the OS) is encrypted by OS X, but I was looking to try Bitlocker in Windows since I don't have a standalone PC box.
Sorry about the link - I don't have an account either. This morning I found the instructions there - now I can't see them.
You can do it though - you just save the key on a virtual floppy. Certainly that worked for me using VirtualBox.
Are you referring to using Bitlocker or TrueCrypt? I'm going to mess around with it some more today.
I used bitlocker in a 8.1 Pro virtualbox VM - 10 should be the same. I'll try it in a VM today as well - at the moment I only have 10 installed in bootcamp.
Sorry to bring back a post from a while ago, but are you by chance suggesting that you are running the SAME native dedicated installation in VMware?
Because if so, you have accomplished what I have spent hours trying to pull off.
I can get it to run in a VM, or I can get it to run in a bootcamp install, but I cant for life of me get any VM software to boot the bootcamp installation.
If you hold the keys to the universe please do share!
dinepada
macrumors regular
SlCKB0Y
macrumors 68040
VMs don't have direct access to the host filesystem. It is using SMB sharing to map the drives.
Sym0
macrumors 6502
Build 9926 was pushed to me last week and it looks pretty neat with a few functional changes and new icons.
This one is more buggy than previous builds for me. For instance, the Recycle Bin won't empty and when trying to do so it takes many seconds to respond to the clicking action.
The resolutions changed and it doesn't fill up the iMac screen like it previously did, so I had to reduce it a lot, though it did make it a lot easier for me to read with the bigger icons and font. 😛 I looked through the MS Feedback app and I'm not the only one experiencing that. A couple of other people with 27" iMac's and VMWare Fusion 7 have the same issue. Plus, the font and icons even look a little fuzzy now.
When booting it, it gives the opportunity to continue with the new build or rollback to a previous version which is cool. It now has a search bar by the Start button and Cortana too. Cortana seems pretty cool and they've beat Apple in bringing a personal digital assistant to the desktop, since OS X only has dictation and not full Siri.
I'm still poking around with it a little bit at a time, but I am enjoying it and I do look forward to Windows 10 later this year, and that it's supposed to be free!
This one is more buggy than previous builds for me. For instance, the Recycle Bin won't empty and when trying to do so it takes many seconds to respond to the clicking action.
The resolutions changed and it doesn't fill up the iMac screen like it previously did, so I had to reduce it a lot, though it did make it a lot easier for me to read with the bigger icons and font. 😛 I looked through the MS Feedback app and I'm not the only one experiencing that. A couple of other people with 27" iMac's and VMWare Fusion 7 have the same issue. Plus, the font and icons even look a little fuzzy now.
When booting it, it gives the opportunity to continue with the new build or rollback to a previous version which is cool. It now has a search bar by the Start button and Cortana too. Cortana seems pretty cool and they've beat Apple in bringing a personal digital assistant to the desktop, since OS X only has dictation and not full Siri.
I'm still poking around with it a little bit at a time, but I am enjoying it and I do look forward to Windows 10 later this year, and that it's supposed to be free!
DELTAsnake
macrumors 6502
Found a bug in Win 10 on my Mac Pro test bed, not sure is it's Apple, Microsoft or Google's problem. If you install iCloud for Windows and try to use the bookmarks feature with Google's Chrome iCloud ask you to install a Chrome Extension. That Apple made extension refuses to install saying it can only run on Windows 7 or 8.
Has anyone managed to get this working natively within bootcamp without upgrading 8.1 first? I have tried to install W10 by creating a FAT partition in Disk Utility and then booting using a W10 USB pen. All seems OK albeit very slow until later in the installation routine it always crashes out and Windows prompts me to repair the disk.
Am about to try again with 8.1 and then do an upgrade - just seems a long winded way.
Am about to try again with 8.1 and then do an upgrade - just seems a long winded way.
NT1440
macrumors P6
That's got to be a version check, I don't know if you can but I've resolved issues like that in the past just by editing an identifier string.
Yes. Clean install works fine for 9879, 9901 and the current 9926 version. You could give some more information (any would do really) or just try rebooting a few times - I had to do that on the last version 3 times.
It does work but you have to try to be at little bit more specific.
No 8.1 needed but a NTFS formatted partition is. Boot the USB, custom install and format the correct partition .......
Correct.
8.1 is NOT required
NTFS partition is NOT required as it will be created by the Win 10 install. Vacant space will do.
iBlazed
macrumors 68000
Yeah oddly enough the most glitchy thing I've run into has been the new start menu. Sometimes when you press the Start button, it doesn't come up for me right away and I have to press it a few times. I was considering putting Windows 10 on a 2-in-1 tablet PC but now I don't think I will for another few months. I'll continue updating it and monitoring the progress on the VM until I feel that it's stable enough.