Lunches at work are usually nothing to write about, however every now
and then, we get an external restaurant that makes a memorable dish. A couple
of weeks ago, that was the Cajun shrimp po’boy. The sandwich was relatively
simple: a toasted baguette, a big of mayonnaise, some shredded lettuce, and
seasoned Cajun shrimp, however the taste was amazing. I had an inkling about
the origin of the name po’boy, but the price of the sandwich betrayed that thinking.
A bit of research on the web revealed a couple of origin stories. The most plausible
and heartwarming was on Wikipedia:
that during a 1929 street car workers’ strike, restaurant owners served the
sandwich to their striking colleagues for free, jokingly referring to the
strikers as poor boys, after which the sandwiches took the name, and in the Louisiana
dialect shortened to po’boy.
I wanted to experiment with TensorFlow, and decided to do that in a Linux VM, despite the fact that Windows Subsystem for Linux exists. In the past I used Sun’s, and then Oracle’s VirtualBox to manage virtual machines, but since my Windows install had Hyper-V, I decided to use that instead. The virtual machine configuration was easy, with disk, networking, and memory configurations non-eventful. However when I tried to start the virtual machine to setup Ubuntu from an ISO, I was greeted with the following error: “Virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” A quick Internet search revealed that a lot of people have faced that problem, and most of the community board solutions did not make any sense. The hidden gem is this technet article , which included detailed steps to find if the Windows Hypervisor was running or not, and the error message if it failed to launch. In my case, the error was: “Hyper-V launch failed; Either VMX not present or
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