New Windows 10 Insider Preview Skip Ahead Build 18845 (20H1) -Feb. 28 Insider

I'm still in the middle of testing some stuff for Android deployment, so I haven't installed this build - yet.

Hope to do that soon.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there @martyfelker

I can't even INSTALL VMWare on this release !!!. Did a clean install of this release on a spare (decent) laptop and then tried to run the vmware installer -- just did nothing -- I left it for around 15 mins as I know with some of these builds if you leave default settings some applications take a long time to start (not 15 mins of course !!!).

@jimbo45. Saw your post on VMware WS forums about this issue. I cannot confirm that VMware WS 15.0.2 breaks after upgrading to this build. All seems well with an 18845 VM and Debian Buster (I don't have enough storage on Windows to install too many VMs). Unfortunately upgrading to Fedora 30 broke VMware in Linux in two ways. When booting kernel 5.0rc7 the compile breaks for a reason the logs don't tell me. When I boot into kernel 4.20.x a more fundemental problem arises. The upgrade install gcc 9 - VMware is looking for gcc 8.2. I'm going to accept working with VMware on Windows and might as well go ahead and upgrade to Fedora 31 (Rawhide) and play with this Insider Build on Virtualbox and Gnome-boxes. The only thing I can suggest is first to delete any .lck files or folders from where you are storing your VMs (if you keep them). Then if the install fails trying collecting the installation logs and, after compressing them, upload them to the VMware forums and hope a VMware employee or developer looks at them. I don't want to go to the extent right now of trying a clean install of VMware WS 15 but probably will down the road. If you backed up or imaged a previous build of Windows where VMware is working of course you might install that and try running the upgrade to 18845 from the ISO. PM me if you wish and I'll provide you a link to the ISO I made.

Cheers,

mf

Cheers

Installed -- two days late because of work. The install was very smooth and rapid (didn't time it) but no problems encountered so far.

My VMware 15 (on Windows) is working fine but not updating to this build, it always fails with SAFE_OS error.

on Linux Vmware probably won't work with kernel 5.X as the gcc compiler, libraries (glibc etc) and the headers won't be correct -- it all works OK with kernel release 4.2.X as libraries are at correct level -- kernel 5.X is just too new even though it's an upgraded 4.2.X one -- if you want to perservere with it "poodlefake" the headers on 5.X to think it's running 4.x kernel -- this *might* work but I don't tinker with that sort of stuff any more !!!

My probs with VMWare seem to be all on Windows HOSTS and only on these builds. I don't have problems running these builds as VM's either on Linux Hosts or Windows (Hosts standard / current version not these ones).

I will be installing build 18845 in a fresh install from ISO as soon as I download it from onedrive. I screwed around with some stuff and am now going to dual boot with Deepin - a cool Chinese distro which will have kernel 4.20 for sure - in fact it is installed but I'm going to download and burn the latest and greatest. If you haven't tried the Deepin desktop (available from Ubuntu at least) its a refreshing treat of a desktop and also available as a distro. Working with Windows is a slog.

Glad to see primary focus of this build is updated version 12 of emojis. Something to look foward to next year :-(.

cereberus said:

Glad to see primary focus of this build is updated version 12 of emojis. Something to look foward to next year :-(.

Have to agree with the consensus - this thing installed extremely quickly. It took roughly 35 minutes to install from mounting the .ISO to completion. And making the .ISO via UUPDUMP.ml always takes about 7-9 minutes. All in all, a very fast process.