Hyper-V on Windows 10

General system EndeavourOS installation
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I’m working to make a useable installation of the Endeavour OS inside a Hyper-V virtual machine.

Problems so far:

1 - Xorg not starting on live ISO
2 - Guest vm sound devices not detected
3 - Wayland not starting after install (X11 is working fine)

Detailed info:

1 - Xorg not starting on live ISO

Whenever I start a new Hyper-V Virtual Machine (gen 1 or 2, secure boot disabled…), the ISO fails to load graphic server with a “no screen” error. The issue here seems to be fixed partially by long pressing ctrl+c when the error shows and using the command line that should pop up to do:

$ sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-hyperv.conf

Then, paste this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "HYPER-V Framebuffer"
    Driver      "fbdev"
EndSection

Save (ctrl+o) and exit (ctrl+x). Then, run the graphic server:

$ sudo startx

Now you should have access to the live session as root. Not ideal, but working. From there, run in terminal (i know sudo is redundant here):

$ sudo calamares_switcher

Follow the gui instructions to install and you will have a kinda working EndeavourOS on Hyper-V.
Only working on xorg (no wayland).

2 - Guest vm sound devices not detected

Still to be looked upon

3 - Wayland not starting after install (X11 is working fine)

Still to be looked upon

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Welcome to the purple side!
And good for you for attempting something different! I admit to only ever using Oracle Virtualbox on Windows to run VMs, and that is without problem. So please keep us updated on your progress.

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I’ve only done it the other way around - so it’s all good to learn!

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Thank you guys! For now i will keep working on making Hyper-V instances work. In my experience, VMware and VBox work out of the box. My favourite so far is VMware.
I want to try other virtualization techs, but here’s that.

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@decimo
Are you able to install the newest ISO on Hyper-V?

It looks like there are some permission problems for the X server that prevent it to start.

Error message:
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
(EE)
Fatal server error:

I searched the Web but could not find any useful information.
Has anyone successfully installed the newest ISO on Hyper-V?

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You may find some very useful information starting with with https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hyper-V