I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.
Let someone you love know how much they mean to you.
An easy one for me. This has been a hard time for everyone in my family, for different reasons. My wife is the most important person in the world, and I’ve been making an effort to tell her that more often during these times.
I was setting up my new machine the other day and one of the first things I did was get Docker Desktop. I grabbed this and enabled Hyper-V at the same time. When I rebooted, I had some errors, so I thought perhaps I hadn’t really enabled the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Hyper-V correctly before getting Docker running. That shouldn’t matter, but I decided to uninstall Docker Desktop, reboot, and be sure things were running.
Once I had Hyper-V running and I connected to my local WSL, I reinstalled Docker Desktop, but still saw lots of this:
Unable to create Hyper-V VM
There were other errors, like the Docker.Core.Backend.BackendDestroyException, but the main problem seemed (to me) to be a Hyper-V issue.
Checking the Hyper-V console showed no VMs created. Hmmm, what do I do?
I tried to “Quick create” a VM, but that wizard failed. I didn’t really want to make a VM at this time, so I hesitated here, but I shouldn’t have. After searching around more, I came back and tried to ensure that I could create a VM.
It was at this time that I noticed the default location for my Hyper-V vms was s:\virtual. I don’t have an “S:“ drive, so I was suspicious. Checking the disk location, I saw the same thing.
This might make sense if scripting was using defaults to set up a new VM. I manually set the defaults in Hyper-V to be folders on my C: drive. Then I had Docker go back to default settings, and it worked. No errors on startup, the Docker icon in the status bar, and I could pull and start a container.
Good to know.
Not sure why this was an issue. This was (supposedly) a clean, new install of Windows. Strange, but something worth checking if you have issues.
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.
Today’s tip is take a step towards one of your life goals, however small.
Tough. Most of my goals are charity or travel. I did start on my chair, but that’s separate. Or maybe not. Coping is coping, so I’ll combine things.
I somewhat just started laying out the chair pieces, but no real cuts. I did realize that I wasn’t quite ready, so I need to actually prep a bit. I have some cushions I’m hoping to use, so I’m going to start by working through some design. Here’s the sketch for what I want to do.
Not a great picture, but this let’s me start to get cuts done. This is based on a plan that I found online, but I wanted to adjust the measurements slightly. I’ll mark up their plan with my slightly wider measurements to accommodate a chair pad I own.
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.
Today’s tip is to make a bucket list of things to do before you die.
Before The Bucket List, I heard Ted Leonsis talk about his 101 things to do before he died on the radio. I used to have my own list, but I think it’s lost on a server somewhere in the basement. One day I’ll see if I can get it back. In the meantime, I’m making a new list with my wife, because we have chosen to spend our lives together and our goals are shared.
Today, I’m listing a few items on the bucket list. This isn’t complete, nor is it ordered.
I have more, but this is a good list to start with.
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