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Re:Microsoft launches Office for iPad by malandrew on Thursday March 27, 2014 @06:29PM (#7483961)
That's a step in the right direction, but don't make us use Hyper-V when most of us are already using VirtualBox. That's one more thing to add to my stack that is different than my tooling that works with all other operating systems I test on. Most developers using vagrant use VirtualBox. Now I have no problem if you make things work with Hyper-V, but please make things work with VirtualBox as well. Does hyper-v even run on Linux or OS X?

PS that link isn't loading for me.

PSS if you are an MS engineer working on this stuff, can you please contact me via the email in my profile. I didn't see an email in yours.

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Re:Microsoft launches Office for iPad by voltagex_ on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:07AM (#7485456)
Hyper V is Microsoft's answer to VMWare's ESX, not to VirtualBox.

VirtualBox can be godawful at times. What's not working for you?

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Re:Microsoft launches Office for iPad by malandrew on Friday March 28, 2014 @12:07PM (#7488079)
vagrant-windows is not working at all on OS X at the moment. https://github.com/WinRb/vagrant-windows/issues/177

Near as I can tell the issue has to do with the WinRM gem, which I'd debug myself, but looking at the source and what it does, I am woefully unequipped to debug that issue without spending a lot of time that I should be spending on other work. I'm simply too far removed from the Windows world to even know where to begin.

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