Announcing Windows 10 Insider Fast Build 16257 PC + 15237 Mobile  

A while back, MS intoduced a feature into Hyper-V where you could export a hyper-v vm in a very compressed format, and all you had to do was double click on it to create new vm. I remember it did not work, but I cannot seem to find it now to test it again. Am I losing the plot or have the Ninja cats finally got to me?

- it's definitely the ninja-cats..

cereberus said:

A while back, MS intoduced a feature into Hyper-V where you could export a hyper-v vm in a very compressed format, and all you had to do was double click on it to create new vm. I remember it did not work, but I cannot seem to find it now to test it again. Am I losing the plot or have the Ninja cats finally got to me?

Kari said:

Cheers - glad to see I have not totally lost the plot but maybe I am starting to suffer from that memory illness whatever it is called .

cereberus said:

Cheers - glad to see I have not totally lost the plot but maybe I am starting to suffer from that memory illness whatever it is called .

I'm just sorry for forgetting to add a ninja cat pic, please accept this as a sign of me fully understanding that we should not talk about Insider preview builds and features without either a ninja cat joke, kitty pic, reference to Hustle-as-a-Service or taco hat, or as preferred, all of them.



BTW. the above is as far as I can recall the second ever cat pic I have posted on Internet since long before WWW (I was a Gopher user long before WWW was presented in early 90's).

Kari said:

I'm just sorry for forgetting to add a ninja cat pic, please accept this as a sign of me fully understanding that we should not talk about Insider preview builds and features without either a ninja cat joke, kitty pic, reference to Hustle-as-a-Service or taco hat, or as preferred, all of them.



BTW. the above is as far as I can recall the second ever cat pic I have posted on Internet since long before WWW (I was a Gopher user long before WWW was presented in early 90's).

Interesting...

Further testing this with N editions and Insider builds, I clean installed W10 Education N version 1703 build 15063. Opting in for Insider Fast Ring with an Insider Pro (Azure AD) account, I got a ring selection I've not seen before:



No questions about Release preview, Slow or Fast ring, only the above options were shown. I selected Skip ahead, of course:



It was accepted without any issues. However, after obligatory restart, the selection was reset to Just send me early updates. I selected Skip ahead once again, and my W10 EDU N started to download 16257.1000 immediately:



Apparently, A) you can still join Skip ahead without any registry hacks, at least in certain circumstances (clean install, opt in), and B) N editions really are now in Insider program.

Kari

I cannot tell from the About Windows (license inserted using Winaero Tweaker BTW) whether I'm currently running the RS4 build or I will be running it after the next update this coming week. Advice?

In any event while waiting for this build I installed Docker for Windows and followed the instructions to disable Virtualbox networking and create a Hyper-V DockerVM. Looks like a pleasant way to mark time.