Virtual Machines on Surface Book

Anonymous
2016-02-18T23:40:10+00:00

Has anyone succeeded in installing and running virtual machines on the Surface Book? If so, was it with VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper V or something else?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-09T01:57:03+00:00

    Yes - I have the i7, dGPU, 512 GB SSD model and it runs virtual machines great with Hyper-V. 

    Did you have a more specific question?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-09T02:22:55+00:00

    Thanks for your answer. I was wondering about how the Hyper-V on the Surface Book handles the switch between the onboard graphics processor and discrete GPU when moving between the display attached and detached in the virtual environment. Have you tried separating  and reattaching the display while running a VM?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-01T16:53:08+00:00

    How do you resize or scale up to VMs so they don't look tiny.

    Eg. I got a Mac OS Sierra VM, but it shows up tiny.

    How do you fix that?

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-01-27T05:36:05+00:00

    Yes, I've done it with Hyper-V (Win10). 

    I have to say the performance is not what I expected. Perhaps because I didn't pay attention to the fact the i7 on a Surface book has 2 cores instead of the regular 4 from other i7 laptops.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-12-27T03:27:46+00:00

    I am having the same problem and so far the only solution I have found is to change the display on the surface book itself.  It causes the OS X vm to lag slightly but not too bad. However, it is a real pain to switch it every time I go back and forth between the VM and native windows environment

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