After installing the preview with all its bells and whistles including Hyper-V for Windows Phone development(I think) I found that I got array of network errors and then the killer VT-x is not available

This is due to the Hyper-V install in VS2013, since only one virtual controller can own the VT-x and Hyper-V is nested into Windows Hyper-V takes ownership and breaks VirtualBox.

So the solution, first you have to disable Hyper-V

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Now if you reboot you should be able to boot up VirtualMachine, now if you are thinking to yourself but what about if I want both, well simple you cant. You either go through this process of turning off and on, or you do what I suggest convert fully to Hyper-V.

This can be done through Disk2VHD so boot up your VirtualBox VM convert it to a VHD and send it on over to Hyper-V simple hey? Oh and if you are like me with fairly chunky VM’s then you will want to archive or delete the old one.

Stuart James  …

If you have seen any of my research it heavily involves crazy little stick figures or badly hand drawn stick figures or horses. Sadly after 3 years of PhD my ability to draw via a computer or by hand has not improved as demonstrated by some quality stick figures that when are aged will go into my current project.

Often it feels like maybe someone with some natural artistic ability should be working on the topic of Sketch based Retrieval. For now though I will have to do!

Stuart James  …

Maybe doing my previous post was a bad Idea….

Stuart James  …

IMPORTANT read recent posts before doing these steps!

After searching the forums for a bit I found a fix!

1. Place and rename the MSU file in an easily accessible place, e.g. C:\8preview\preview.msu

2. open command prompt in administrator mode.

3. Type: Expand –F:* c:\8preview\preview.msu C:\8preview\

4. Type: DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\8preview\Windows8-RT-KB2849636-x64.cab

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From Johan Rensenbrink on anwers.microsoft.com

So now for the install …

 

 

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And the anti-climax:

 

Wow I never thought this would be so hard….

Stuart James  ...

After seeing the post come up in my sad to say Facebook feed went on to download the 8.1 update for my Surface RT. Am a little confused by how this error is to be fixed but still am a little disappointed.

Error “The update is not applicable to your computer”

Hopefully will fix a bit later, for the moment no 8.1 for me and many others.

Stuart James  …