CentOS 8 on Hyper-V: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade BIOS

This is not typical CentOS/RHEL install guide, and for other scenarios please follow standard CentOS/RHEL install tutorials – here is mine – https://www.informaticar.net/how-to-install-centos-redhat/ .

This tutorial will cover CentOS 8 (RHEL 8 also) on Hyper-V installation and typical error you get while finishing installation of CentOS 8 on Hyper-V – SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade BIOS or use force_adr…

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Convert Hyper-V VHDX to VHD

You ask yourself – why would you do this, who is this tutorial for? VHDX is after all newer hard disk format with many benefits.

I need this command quite often, since Azure is limited to .vhd files and my template library for local lab deployment is mostly vhdx (gen 2 virtual machines).

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