Windows 10 IoT Core

[rbecker]

Hi all,

I succesfully installed the WIndows 10 preview (the latest) in virtualbox and it's running smooth. Next thing i want to accomplish is to install Windows IoT Core on a raspberry Pi 2 (to do this, you need Win10).
I have builtin cardreader but I cannot flash it from the win10 running in Virtualbox. It's just not there and adding it as a .vmdk crashed the win10.

Any suggestions from your side?

regards

[loukingjr]

You could wait until Windows 10 is released and VirtualBox fully supports it and try again?

[rbecker]

Yes that's an option but I want to get it working asap for a demonstration, that's why!

[loukingjr]

I for one don't know if it's possible and I'm guessing that there haven't been many that even tried.

[Legorol]

You could wait until Windows 10 is released and VirtualBox fully supports it and try again?

This is not really a Windows 10 issue, but a question about how to expose an SD card reader to a VirtualBox guest. No reason why it can't be tried now.

As for possible solution, if the SD card reader is a USB device (or appears as such on the host), then try passing the USB device through to the guest. See VirtualBox documentation on how to pass USB devices through.

[rbecker]

Too bad it's not USB, it would be easier I guess. I'll just buy an external one I think. The easiest way to manage I think.

thanks

[mpack]

Too bad it's not USB

Are you sure about that? That would be the obvious way to add it to a standard PC motherboard. Being mounted as part of the case doesn't exclude it being a USB device.

[cookies!]

Using a vm, I was able to flash my micro sd card following the microsoft instructions at
http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/SetupRPI.htm

Even though step 1 mentions needed a physical machine, I used the following vm:

• Windows 10 64-bit created with VirtualBox 4.3.26
• Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Evaluation copy. Build 10074 (according to the desktop overlay in the bottom right corner)
• has the Guest Additions installed

I plugged my micro sd card into a usb device into a laptop running Windows 7 64-bit.

(I could not get the 32-bit image to access the usb device. The usb device in Device Manager complained about an invalid parameter. I tried updating drivers, uninstalling the usb devices from Device Manager and plugging into different usb slots.)

I have not yet tried the card in my Rasberry Pi 2, but will do that tonight and update this post.

Update:
Powered up but the display was unreadable. It looked like the windows logo and the spinny but too distorted to tell. Let it sit for 5+ minutes with no change. I tried a 2nd Pi with no luck. Hopefully you'll have better luck.

(edit: redo url due to forum restriction of disallowing urls in first post)