

Results turned up pretty quickly, actually. What on earth had happened?! I hadn’t changed anything since then and now! Naturally, I resorted to my GoogleFu for the answer. I opened up VirtualBox, and was greeted with this beautiful message: Two days later, I had a little bit of downtime at work, so I figured I’d mess around with the VM a little bit more. I then added the Ubuntu Server VM, configured it quickly, and was up in no time. Then, I got sidetracked and finally thought, “Nah, that’s too much work. That’ll be easy.” I went into the “Programs and Features” and enabled Hyper-V. Then I thought to myself, “Maybe I’ll just use Hyper-V on my local machine. I want to keep this separate from everything else, since it’s just a test machine.” Well, no, actually, I don’t want to do that. “Oh! I’ll just use vCenter and create a quick dev box.

I then thought to myself, “How do I want to virtualize this?” So I headed on over to, downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu Server, and was about to get started. I was wanting to install a Linux VM so that I could do some testing on a few applications, as well as use it as an excuse to improve on my pathetic Vim skills (you can find my very basic. I ran into an interesting (read: frustrating) problem this week at work.
