How to run Pihole and other on windows ?

2013 · 24 Mar 2018 at 02:40

Hi guys

I had a question I was wondering how I could run Pi-hole and other useful software on a Windows 10 micro server.

may as well get the most out of it.

Steveocee · 24 Mar 2018 at 07:18

Pihole is a Linux app, you can only virtualise it with something like VMware player or virtual box.

2013 · 24 Mar 2018 at 17:08

Thanks, would running VMware use a lot of resource also would it become a bit complicated doing it via VM ?

LizardKing · 24 Mar 2018 at 22:17

Install the hyper v role and run it as a VM, ive got it running on a win10 machine and you'd never know it was there.

resource wise, any desktop vm solution is pretty minimum, so which ever takes your fancy, personally these days I seem to have lost a lot of love for VMware but that's mainly due to work than home lab stuff

2013 · 25 Mar 2018 at 02:03

Thanks, Ill install it once i get some time, after installing hyper v which OS should install pi os ?

I may some help using linux I dont know how to install and setup things on linux.

Biz.Kid09 · 4 Apr 2018 at 14:44

So you need to install Linux OS first, which one is entirely up to you. Ubuntu Server is pretty solid, install it and you will be on a terminal session. Then you need to do the pi hole install.

Armageus · 4 Apr 2018 at 14:46

Is it available as a Docker container? If so you can run Docker (using Hyper-V) on windows.