Fun with Nano Server

Re:Fun with Nano Server by MarkSweep on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:06AM (#28985166)

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

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by creshal on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:23AM (#28985241)

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?

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by friseurtermin on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:37AM (#28985320)

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...

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by pjmlp on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:17AM (#28985554)

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.

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by sebazzz on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:59AM (#28989319)

Server Core or Hyper-V Server still contains quite some GUI dependencies. Things like task manager, Notepad (different between versions), and a basic file picker for applications. A floating console window appears and even wallpapers applied via SysInternals are supported.

A good thing too, because the driver installation tools from Dell for instance depend on these.

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by creshal on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:17AM (#29011705)

> A good thing too, because the driver installation tools from Dell for instance depend on these.

…on task manager, or on the wallpaper API? With how eccentric Dell drivers can be I feel like I have to ask.

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by pjmlp on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:12PM (#28989518)

I only use classical VMs, accessed via RDP, or do everything via the various managed services from Azure, so wasn't aware of that being the case.

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Re:Fun with Nano Server by p_l on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:05AM (#28985475)

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)

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