Sytone's Ramblings

The occasional posts of a guy who plays with technology.

Getting a DietPi image running on Hyper-V

2017-07-28 3 min read Technology
Why? Because it is faster to test installs and adding items to the DietPi installer with snapshots! Also it makes a great small Linux installation to run other items off in Hyper-V. Go get the VirtualBox VMWare x64 image from the DietPi site. http://dietpi.com/#five Download the QEMU disk image utility from https://cloudbase.it/qemu-img-windows/ Extract the VirtualBox VMWare image, it is a ova file. At this point we need to take the actual disk image out of this file. Continue reading