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Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by MarkSweep »

Note: this article appears to be talking about Nano Server as an a traditional OS. Microsoft has abandoned[1] that approach and is instead only offering Nano Server as a container image[2]. Compared to more conventional Windows images whose size are measured in gigabytes, the Nano Server docker images take ~120MB to pull and ~300MB of disk space.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-windows-nanoserver

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by creshal »

MarkSweep wrote: post #2

Note: this article appears to be talking about Nano Server as an a traditional OS. Microsoft has abandoned[1] that approach and is instead only offering Nano Server as a container image[2]. Compared to more conventional Windows images whose size are measured in gigabytes, the Nano Server docker images take ~120MB to pull and ~300MB of disk space. [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/... [2…

Shame really, it does look like a neat OS for hypervisors. What's Microsoft's current recommendation for that? Still a full blown graphical UI?

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by friseurtermin »

creshal wrote: post #3
MarkSweep wrote: post #2

Note: this article appears to be talking about Nano Server as an a traditional OS. Microsoft has abandoned[1] that approach and is instead only offering Nano Server as a container image[2]. Compared to more conventional Windows images whose size are measured in gigabytes, the Nano Server docker images take ~120MB to pull and ~300MB of disk space. [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/... [2…

Shame really, it does look like a neat OS for hypervisors. What's Microsoft's current recommendation for that? Still a full blown graphical UI?

I'm guessing you'd want to go with Server Core [0], which is not a full-blown GUI but still supports windows.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by mattowen_uk »

I had hoped that Nano Server would make it's way onto the Raspberry Pi (natively), but that never happened. Instead Microsoft offered up Windows IoT, which is a horribly slow beast with a convoluted management workflow, and practically useless for any real-world application (and also restricted by licencing to keep it out of reach from hobbyists).

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by p_l »

creshal wrote: post #3
MarkSweep wrote: post #2

Note: this article appears to be talking about Nano Server as an a traditional OS. Microsoft has abandoned[1] that approach and is instead only offering Nano Server as a container image[2]. Compared to more conventional Windows images whose size are measured in gigabytes, the Nano Server docker images take ~120MB to pull and ~300MB of disk space. [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/... [2…

Shame really, it does look like a neat OS for hypervisors. What's Microsoft's current recommendation for that? Still a full blown graphical UI?

I think it was relatvely recently still possible to get HyperV minimal hypervisor (it was also one of the use cases for NanoServer, essentially minimal HyperV + tiny layer of userspace)

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by pjmlp »

creshal wrote: post #3
MarkSweep wrote: post #2

Note: this article appears to be talking about Nano Server as an a traditional OS. Microsoft has abandoned[1] that approach and is instead only offering Nano Server as a container image[2]. Compared to more conventional Windows images whose size are measured in gigabytes, the Nano Server docker images take ~120MB to pull and ~300MB of disk space. [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/... [2…

Shame really, it does look like a neat OS for hypervisors. What's Microsoft's current recommendation for that? Still a full blown graphical UI?

You can do everything via Powershell, or remote Web UI, and Nano Server or Server Core are the ones to go to.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

Naturally on Azure, how the server looks like is meaningless when using AppService, AKS or Azure Functions.

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by nix23 »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #5

I had hoped that Nano Server would make it's way onto the Raspberry Pi (natively), but that never happened. Instead Microsoft offered up Windows IoT, which is a horribly slow beast with a convoluted management workflow, and practically useless for any real-world application (and also restricted by licencing to keep it out of reach from hobbyists).

>and also restricted by licencing to keep it out of reach from hobbyists

Why is that? Isn't IoT Core free to use for hobbyists?

Re: Fun with Nano Server

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Post by mattowen_uk »

nix23 wrote: post #9
mattowen_uk wrote: post #5

I had hoped that Nano Server would make it's way onto the Raspberry Pi (natively), but that never happened. Instead Microsoft offered up Windows IoT, which is a horribly slow beast with a convoluted management workflow, and practically useless for any real-world application (and also restricted by licencing to keep it out of reach from hobbyists).

>and also restricted by licencing to keep it out of reach from hobbyists Why is that? Isn't IoT Core free to use for hobbyists?

Yes, but when I last played with it, it's got a forced reboot every 24 hours, which limits any real-world usage.

To be honest the whole experience was sub-par and I went back to using a GUI-less Raspbian install.

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