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To create Hyper-V VM with a Legacy Network Adapter on the host machine, you can follow the instructions in our guide on how to Configure & Use Hyper-V and Create Virtual Machines in Windows.
Beginning with Windows 10 version 1709, the Hyper-V Manager includes an option to create a new virtual machine from a single dialog box. Be sure to check these four settings before you use this ...
Sometimes when you create a Hyper-V virtual machine, you may name it with a name that is not accurate or that you no longer wish to use. This article will provide three methods to rename a Hyper-V ...
Whenever you create a virtual machine, Hyper-V generates a unique ID to represent the virtual machine, called an identifier. When you export a virtual machine, it carries that identifier.
Continuing where I left off on during a previous article on using the Hyper-V PowerShell module, we will go from viewing our virtual infrastructure and gathering information about various parts of it ...
With the massive sizes of Hyper-V VMs, it might be a good idea to put a hard cap on how large they can grow to. When you create a new virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager, the virtual hard ...
One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so that they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. I will tell you ...
Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under ...
Adding more disk space to virtual machines is important to keep systems running properly and can be accomplished using Microsoft Server Hyper-V with either Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manager.
Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.
Hyper-V Manager includes a "Quick Create" option that opens a gallery of premade virtual machine images that can easily be downloaded and installed in Windows 10 and Windows Server.
Microsoft Hyper-V is continuously improving its support for Linux distributions, but some occasional manual tweaking is necessary to accomplish tasks. Take, for example, an installation of Ubuntu in a ...