Finding a cross-platform virtualisation solution to work with both Mac and Windows is not too difficult. There are not than many options to choose from. But throw Vagrant and Docker into the mix and it can be a frustrating experience. Find out how to run Hyper-V, VirtualBox and VMWare Windows virtualisation together, on the same computer using multiple boot entries.

The Chocolatey Community Repository currently has 6,655 unique packages. When we add up the versions of each of those packages it grows to 65,549. That’s a lot of packages. A lot of storage needed to house them all. And a lot bandwidth needed for you to download them.

But the Chocolatey Community Repository is not for everybody. Chocolatey doesn’t recommend organizations use the community repository directly for several reasons.

I’ve had an disagreement recently with a colleague about the usage of open-source automation tools, especially Chocolatey in Business environments. A key point of this argument was the integration of new open source tools into long-existing, mostly commercial software based workflows.

One of the main reasons to use Chocolatey in an organization is its ability to integrate seamlessly with already existing automation infrastructure.

Getting PowerShell Core to run on Linux was easy enough. As I’m running Kubuntu 18.10 it’s a simple case of using snapd.

However, I didn’t expect running PowerShell Core on Linux to be problem free. And it wasn’t. After installing my own PsTodoTxt module from the PowerShell Gallery, PowerShell couldn’t find it.

I started using PC’s with MS Dos 4 and then 5. I graduated to Windows 3.11 and I’ve used every single version of Windows released since then. I lasted two months on Vista which some have claimed I should get a medal for (Vista wasn’t all that bad…). But I’ve also dabbled outside of the Windows world. I used OS/2 Warp for almost a year in 1995 (I still have the box!

Craig Porteous [t|w] and I are running a Hacktoberfest workshop on Saturday the 27th of October at the Incremental Group in Glasgow!

As I mentioned in my last post, I will be giving my Git Fundamentals - Open up a world of community and collaboration three times this month and now we are ready for time number two! Come along to the DevOps North East User Group to hear myself and Craig Porteous[t|b] talk about The PowerShell Standards Agency and, as I said, my talk on Git Fundamentals - Open up a world of community and collaboration.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Work. Life. And speaking. Have all taken it’s toll on my time. It’s always at the back of my mind when I come across a problem, solve it and think ‘hey that would make a good blog post’. And then promptly get wrapped up in something else and that solution never gets shared. … but that does lead me nicely to my next big knowledge sharing event (it’s like I planned this post!

In my move away from VMware workstation I’ve been using Hyper-V more and more for virtual machines but I’ve come across a problem only recently. DNS resolution and internet browsing is noticeably slower with many pages not being able to be viewed at all. So after much frustration I decided to tackle this problem today and I found something unexpected. Along with the new Fall Creators Update released at the tail end of 2017 is a new Hyper-V NAT switch called Hyper-V (Default Switch).

Hacktoberfest is back!

The month long celebration of open source gives you a chance to brush up on your git, help open source projects and get yourself some stickers or a t-shirt!