However Nano was much more than a bare metal hypervisor. The OS has a rudimentary text mode console with functionality similar of VMware ESXi console. Hence it’s not actually called “Windows” or “Windows Nano” but rather simply “Nano Server”. It went one step further than Server Core or Windows PE by completely removing GUI components and local shell. Nano Server was an interesting attempt at creating a datacenter grade OS that’s not managed via local GUI, keyboard and mouse, but rather full automation, remote tooling and code. My goal is to demystify this a bit, lower the entry bar and made it easy for people to hack it. People didn’t bother to even check it out. Even if you managed to get it running, there wasn’t anything you could actually do with it for fun. You couldn’t just simply download and run it. It had a rather high entry barrier, requiring you to build it on a Windows Server 2016 host using PowerShell magic spells. While everybody is busy buzzing about Windows 11, I wanted to commemorate the finest operating system ever made by Microsoft – Nano Server.įor most of people Nano Server was esoteric, distant and unapproachable. ( This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)
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