Questions tagged [hyper-v]
Type-1 hypervisor developed by Microsoft. Included in Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, as well as Pro editions of Windows since Windows 8.
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Windows 8 Hyper-V - how to give VM internet access?
I've got Windows 8 Pro on my home machine. I want to have a Windows 7 Professional VM running under Hyper-V, and I want the VM to have full internet access. My physical machine has a wireless network ...
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Hyper-V VM won't boot from Cd, error: "unsigned image's hash is not allowed"
I went to install a Debian instance on Windows Hyper-V client in Windows 10. However, when I attempted to start the VM, it would not boot from the cd. Eventually the Hyper-V BIOS gave me a failure to ...
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Docker on Hyper-V vs WSL 2
I'm using Docker Toolbox, recently I got to know about the Docker installation using WSL 2.
What are the differences between Hyper-V and WSL 2? Which has better performance?
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Convenient way to enable/disable Hyper-V in Windows 8
I really like the Hyper-V support in Windows 8, however, there are some situations in which I need to disable Hyper-V in order to run some apps which don't like to be executed even in the root ...
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How to copy-paste files to Hyper-V VMs
When running Hyper-V and a virtual machine (also with a modern Windows OS), is it really not possible to copy/paste files across between host and VMs? Not even text it seems, although there is a weird ...
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Hyper-V reports that the hypervisor is not running. How to start the hypervisor?
I've created and run Hyper-V guests on this machine in the past. VT extensions are enabled in the BIOS; no changes made there. I've changed my boot device order recently.
How can I ensure that Hyper-V'...
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Hyper-V appears to runs on top of the host OS, so why is it considered a native (type-1) hypervisor?
Wikipedia says:
Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian[5] and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor...*
Wikipedia itself says that a native hypervisor is type-1 hypervisor -...
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Hyper-V Clipboard and Integration Services in Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 14.04 running in Windows Hyper-V. I am experiencing a problem with the Clipboard (copy from host to Virtual Machine), it is not working correctly (It was not working with Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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How to find out whether Hyper-V is currently enabled/running
How can I find out whether Hyper-V is currently running on my Windows 8.1 Pro System?
Reason: Some installs automatically enable Hyper-V (e. g. the Visual Studio Android Emulator addons). I am mostly ...
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Hyper-V Virtualisation Disabled in Firmware
I'm on windows 8 and i've been trying to use hyper-v to set-up a virtual machine.
When I go into the "Turn Windows Features On or Off" the box to select Hyper-V platform, it is grayed out and when I ...
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VMWare Player is not working after installing Hyper-V on windows 8 Pro
I was using BB10 simulator on windows 8 but last night I installed windows Phone 8 development environment and it also installed Hyper-V (or activated it). Now I am unable to run BB10 simulator in ...
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How do I install and use Windows Virtual PC in Windows 8?
I really liked the integrated Virtual Machine that Windows had built-in with Windows 7, known as the Windows Virtual PC. I'm looking to install that again. I'd like to be able to install multiple ...
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How to remove all the vEthernet (Default Switch) once and for all?
As in the screenshot above, I don't know why the vEthernet (Default Switch) on my Windows 10 laptop keeps reproducing itself and auto connecting to it everytime I shut down and switch on the laptop.
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Ubuntu not connecting to network in Hyper-V
I am unable to connect the Ubuntu guest (both 12.10 and 12.04) to the internet via hyper-V.
Here is what I have done so far (with much thanks due to @Kronos's blog post on the topic):
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How to connect to a local hyper-v virtual machine via SSH?
What I have:
Windows 8.1 professional edition
What I want?
To simulate a circumstance: connect a remote Linux system using SSH.
What I do:
Install CentOS 6.4 x64 under the built-in Hyper-v.
It works ...
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Change screen resolution of Ubuntu VM in Hyper-V
Last night I was attempting to set up a Ubuntu VM on my device using Hyper-V. I had no problems with creating the VM, nor getting OS installed inside it and booted (apart from I incorrectly chose ...
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can't access 127.0.0.1:80 outside of WSL2 / Ubuntu 20.04
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 / Hyper-V / Windows 10.
When I do curl http://127.0.0.1 inside Ubuntu I get this back:
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></...
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Get official Windows XP virtual machine for Hyper-V
There are many unofficial Windows XP ISO file in numerous of websites. So to create a Windows XP virtual machine, one has to download that ISO and make that virtual hard disk manually. Is there a way ...
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How to invoke Hyper-V Enhanced Session screen resolution prompt?
When using client Hyper-V in Windows 10, the first time you switch on Enhanced Session for VM it prompts you to select resolution, then remembers your selection and never prompts again it seems. Where ...
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How can I increase the Hyper-V display resolution?
I just started experimenting with the Hyper-V of Windows 8 and installed Ubuntu on it. However when I launch it my screen resolution is small.
How can I scale Ubuntu to the resolution of my screen?
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Unable to disable Hyper-V in Windows 10
Hi I installed Docker for Windows which enabled Hyper-V on my windows 10 machine.
Unfortunately this caused Virtual Box to not work anymore, therefore I removed Docker again, but Hyper-V is still ...
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How to remove a Hyper-V virtual Ethernet switch
A stale VM switch in Hyper-V is no longer used and when I try to delete it, it always fails with the following message:
PS C:\> Get-VMSwitch nat
Name SwitchType NetAdapterInterfaceDescription
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Ubuntu 16.04 VM on Windows 10 Hyper-V - No Network Connectivity
So I just created the VM and I have no idea why I don't have network connectivity. I've tried a bunch of things to troubleshoot the issues, mostly the following in different combinations:
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Share directory on Windows Hyper-V Host with Ubuntu VM
Just installed Hyper-V on Windows 8 and Guest OS Ubuntu 12.04.
Coming from VirtualBox, I am looking for best method for sharing a Directory on Host/Windows with Guest Ubuntu.
I read this: https://...
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Hyper-V External network switch kills my host's network performance
I have Windows 10 fully updated. I do the following:
Testing internet speed - 70 Mbps up / 70 Mpbs down
Hyper-V Manager
Virtual Switch Manager
Create Virtual Switch - External
Testing internet speed -...
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How To Expand Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Filesystem Volume on Hyper-V
I created a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V and now I am running out of disk space and I need to increase the filesystem space.
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Convert OVA to VHD for usage in Hyper-V
I have a OVA file that I need to convert to VHD in order to use Hyper-V. Opening the .ova file in winrar gives me one .ovf file and one .vmdk file. I tested the program Microsoft Virtual Machine ...
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Switch off Hyper-V without disable functionality in Windows 8.1
Since I must use also VMWare I need to temporarily turn off Hyper-V
In Windows 8 I used
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
to disable hypervisor, and:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
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Change Server 2012 display resolution inside of a Hyper-V VM?
Running Server 2012 inside of a Hyper-V VM, clicking on "Display Settings" to try and change the screen resolution, but it says "The display settings can't be changed from a remote session".
Anyone ...
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Is Virtualbox incompatible with Hyper-V in Windows 10?
This question is not related to How to select paravirtualization interface in virtual box
In Virtualbox 5.1.x I saw various paravirtualization options in the "Acceleration" tab of my VM settings.
I ...
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Remove VirtualBox Guest Additions from a VM that has already been migrated to Hyper V
I have moved a Centos 6 VM (used as a desktop) from Virtualbox to HyperV, and the performance is terrible. I have installed Linux Integration Services but this has hardly helped, so I would now like ...
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Hyper-v Default Switch static IP
Is it possible to set a static IP address for Hyper-V's default switch adapter?
Every time I reboot my PC the address has changed.
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Warning "You are currently using the RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter"
I have received warning popup box "You are currently using the RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter. We no longer support this adapter ..." after I installed new graphic card.
I tried to open link ...
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Port forwarding with Hyper-V virtual machine on Windows 10
I have Ubuntu 18.04 in a Hyper-V virtual machine on Windows 10 and I need to make its port 51235 to be accessible from the internet.
There are various related posts, for example:
Hyper-V and a static ...
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How do I convert an .img file to vhd?
I have an image file (linux based image) and want to convert it to VHD so that it can be used to create hyper-V VMs.
I used "qemu-img convert" to convert raw to vpc format, but vpc doesnt work for ...
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Hyper-V - wide screen resolutions?
I've created Windows 7 virtual machine on Windows 8 Hyper-V, but can find how to set resolution to anything widescreen (my monitor supports 1920x1200) to be able work fullscreen.
Is it possible to get ...
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Issue with Wifi Adapter with Docker Windows (Native, HYPER-V)
I just received a brand new work laptop and immediately installed the native version of Docker for Windows.
However I am seeing an issue that everytime the new network adapter for Docker via Hyper-V ...
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Windows 10: Permanently disable VBS (Virtualization-based security)?
Android Studio requires Hyper-V, but installing Hyper-V also enabled VBS (Virtualization-based Security). The problem is AMD's Ryzen software doesn't run if VBS is enabled.
Applying the following ...
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VMware Printing vs Hyper-V Printing
In VMware once you connect to your virtual machine, you can access the printers from your host machine. This is a very nice feature, you don't have to setup the printer for your virtual machine. I was ...
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Disabling time synchronization with Hyper-V
I found that when attempting to change the Date/Time settings on a Hyper-V virtualised Windows 8 OS, I found that the date would immediately change back to the correct date.
How can I prevent the ...
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How to enable Hyper-V on Windows 7?
I am trying to enable Hyper-V on a windows 7 installation. I followed the instructions on MSDN without luck. There is no "Hyper-V" setting under my Windows Features.
I do have all BIOS features ...
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"Virtual Machine Platform" in Win 10 (2004) is Hyper-V?
To use Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 in Windows 10 May 2020 update, the documentation says that I must turn on the "Virtual Machine Platform" Windows feature. Is it some sort of Hyper-V? Doesn't it ...
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Doesn't Windows Sandbox require Hyper-V to run? How is it working with Hyper-V not enabled?
If my knowledge is correct, Windows Sandbox requires Hyper-V to run right? But when I enable Windows Sandbox on the Windows Features window, Hyper-V did not get enabled so I wanted to know what was up?...
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VMWare and Docker on Same Windows 10 PC
I would like to use VMware and Dockers in my Windows 10 machine. Docker requires Hyper-V while VMware is angry about it. How to solve this conflict?
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How to hide from a program that it is running on a virtual machine?
Some software contains tests to see if they are running on a virtual machine.
It's very unpleasant to see alert messages such as "Sorry, this application cannot run under a Virtual Machine." and have ...
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Hyper-V: Cannot press any key to boot from installation media
I am running Windows 10 Pro for Workstations (version 1803, 64-bit). I'm trying to create a Windows 7 SP1 virtual machine for running some legacy software.
When the virtual machine starts up, it asks ...
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Can't uninstall VMware player 5.0 from computer with Hyper-V
I had installed VMware player on my computer. Later I installed Hyper-V on my computer.
Now, when I try to uninstall VMware player, I get this message:
Can anybody provide a way to remove VMware ...
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Hyper-V "Mouse input not captured"
I've installed hyper-v on windows 8, downloaded and added virtual machine from ms site "Windows 7 IE 8". But I can't use mouse, see message in bottom of window "Mouse input not captured&...
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Windows 10 Pro Hyper-V Manager Missing
I have the full release version of Win10 Pro (64bit) as a fresh install to a laptop that I previously used as a Hyper-V server running Win8.1 Pro.
I have selected to install all Hyper-V features from ...
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Redirect USB Device To Virtual Machine Using Hyper-V As Host
So I have a machine that is running Hyper-V Server 2012R2 as the host (bare-metal hypervisor). I have a USB device that is attached to this machine and I need a virtual machine that is running on the ...
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