2020-11-10 19:52:00
For a while now, I've been using Git + SSH on Windows 10 and I've been very content about the whole setup.
Git was installed using Chocolatey, just because it's easy and takes care of a few things for you. But it turns out it was a little bit "too much" in the background, as it turns out.
I wanted to move my SSH files (private key, known_hosts etc) to OneDrive, thus changing the path to the files. I just couldn't figure out where the SSH client configuration for the Git from Chocolatey was tucked away. This Git does not use the default OpenSSH client delivered by Windows 10 C:\windows\system32\OpenSSH\ssh.
An hour of searching made me realize that "git.install", the package from Choco, includes a mini-Unix-like environment. It's not Git on Windows: it runs on MINGW-W64.
I found the following files, which define the behavior of the Choco-installed Git + SSH:
In the latter file, you can set UserKnownHostsFile and IdentityFile to set the file path for the private key and known_hosts.
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2020-11-09 20:53:00
A while back I wrote detailed instructions on how we managed to get VBox to run on Windows 10 with Hyper-V remaining enabled. This required a little tweaking, but it allowed us to retain all of the Win10 security features offered by Hyper-V.
Recently the VirtualBox team released version 6.1.16 which includes a number of improvements aimed at Windows 10 and "Windows Hypervisor Platform".
You now no longer need any of the tweaks I described earlier! Vanilla VirtualBox 6.1.16 runs on top of Hyper-V and WHP without further issues. SHA2 hashing works well and GCrypt no longer needs to have its acceleration disabled! This makes life so much easier!
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