Originally Posted by
nkedel
By "role," are you running Windows Server on it, or are you just using the Windows Server
term for enabling the Hyper-V feature on Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise?
Driver support for newer laptops has in the past lagged quite a bit on Windows Server; problems there on Kaby Lake laptops wouldn't surprise me at all.
If you're having problems with Hyper-V on Win 10 Pro, are you running Microsoft-provided drivers, or Dell ones? My experience -- not that recent -- has been that Hyper-V is much happier when running a pure Microsoft driver set as far as possible (especially for display drivers) and that there are often problems with Dell's builds of the Intel video driver.
At least it doesn't have a dGPU and Optimus.
While it's not as handy for some use cases, non-Hyper-V virtualization through VMWare Workstation and/or Virtualbox tends to run great on this generation of machines. I'm very, very happy with my "big brother" of that machine, the XPS 15 9560.
Yep, cross-OS term confusion
- in this case I'm running on Win 10 Pro, and am using vanilla Dell drivers.
Luckily, I have no desperate need for VMs on this laptop (do most of that on a chunky desktop), but thought the issue worth mentioning here as I remember a lot of discussion last year and I guess that the RAM available on this iteration of XPS 13 would make it otherwise look suitable.
Thanks for the tips - if a need for VMs on the laptop does arise, I'll try the Microsoft driver route, as I do want to stick with Hyper-V.