Category: Web Development

Enabling Virtualization Technology in Lenovo Systems

TheSmithy

Intel VT-x virtualization

Many PC laptops (especially those from Lenovo, HP, and Dell) have Intel’s VT-x virtualization turned off by default, which can cause issues with many Vagrant boxes. Check your computer manufacturer’s knowledge base for instructions for enabling VT-x in your system BIOS/UEFI settings.

Lenovo instructions:

http://amiduos.com/support/knowledge-base/article/enabling-virtualization-in-lenovo-systems

‘Source path too long’. Deleting a directory in Windows 10 with  using robocopy

TheSmithy

link:

http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/deleting-directory-windows-10-source-path-too-long-using-robocopy

Jeff Geerling

For some reason, Windows doesn’t play well with deep folder hierarchies. Often, when building Drupal projects inside VMs with synced directories, I end up with folders with 10+ levels of hierarchy, and when I try to delete the directory within windows, I get the error “Source path too long”