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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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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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Ubuntu 12.04 VM on Windows 8 Hyper-V - No Network Connectivity
I have been attempting to connect my Ubuntu 12.04 Virtual Machine to the internet. I have been searching and found some information but have not been successful so far. I have also tried Linux Mint ...
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Cannot create external switch on Hyper-V
I am getting the following error when creating an external switch on Hyper-V:
I am running Windows 8.1 x64.
My switch settings are as follows:
Event viewer gives me the following errors in ...
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VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible [duplicate]
I installed VMworkstation on a fresh Windows 10 operating system. When I tried to create any machine I got the following error:
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V ...
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Hyper-V vs. Windows Virtual PC
When trying out the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I installed Hyper-V.
It looked like just another Windows Virtual PC.
Could someone explain how it is different? Is there a performance difference? Any ...
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How to properly compact Hyper-V dynamic sized VHDX files for Linux VMs?
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on a Hyper-V VM, everything was fine until I noticed that the VHDX file takes up unusually enormous amount of disk space. From within the VM, you can see that the ...
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How to create a Windows virtual machine using Hyper-V Manager
I am trying to create a Windows virtual machine using Hyper-V, but I have several issues. I tried following instructions on this page, to use the "Quick Create":
I was ...
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Windows 8.1- Hyper-V won't network with Ubuntu 14.04 VM
Well, I'm officially out of patience for this sort of thing, and it's 12:23 AM.
I'm trying to run Ubuntu 14.04 with Hyper-V on a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro running Windows 8.1. I cannot get the virtual ...
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How do I setup a working Wifi/Internet connection on Windows 10 hyper-v?
I have set up a Ubuntu 18.04 instance in Hyper-V.
But I don't have any internet connection withing my VM.
I am working on a laptop, connected with Wifi.
I have tried the following.
Created an ...
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How is WSL 2 different from a Virtual Machine?
According to the announcement:
WSL 2 uses the latest and greatest in virtualization technology to run its Linux kernel inside of a lightweight utility virtual machine (VM). However, WSL 2 will NOT ...
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How to connect my Hyper-V VM to a USB tablet (or device in general)?
This question might look like a duplicate but I checked and actually this should not be the case. Here I want to be able to connect a USB device (not a hard drive, but a tablet, a phone or an mp3 ...
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No VGA and sound driver installed in XP guest machine in Hyper-v virtualization?
I have a Windows 10 host with 1 XP virtual machine using Hyper-v. However after installing XP for the guest machine, I don't see any VGA or sound driver, so the performance in guest machine is a ...
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Reenabling Confirmation Dialog for Turning Off Hyper-V VM
Normally when you turn off a Hyper-V VM (as opposed to shutting it down), a confirmation dialog appears. This is to prevent you from accidentally switching a machine off. However, for some testing ...
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Hyper-V Manager can't find virtual machine
I am using the Hyper-V Manager and following a Microsoft Learning tutorial.
I already have the three folders representing the Virtual Machine in:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\20488\Drives\...
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Hyper-V virtual external switch disables my internet connection
My goal is simply to get internet connection within my virtual machine (without disabling it on the host).
Given the length - I split this is to different parts, as I am aware some would prefer to ...
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Time among computers and servers are off
I'm trying to get all my computers time to sync.
I have a Windows Server 2012 with hyper-V. Running on the Hyper V is:
a VM DC - parent Hyper-V is part of DC's domain
a VM IIS server (workgroup)
I ...
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How to make Nvidia GeForce card unaware it's in VM?
My configuration:
Hypervizor - Hyper-V
Host OS: Windows Server 2019
Guest OS: Windows 10
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
I succeeded to pass-through the GPU to the VM as described here. But, I get ...
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How do I use Hyper-V to have multiple people using one computer?
This may not be exactly an original question, but I couldn't find any good answers to it.
I want to know how, using Hyper-V, I can have two desktops running with one keyboard controlling one, one ...
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Issue accessing Docker in Hyper-V Linux VM from browser
On my Windows 11 machine I've created a Hyper-V VM and installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it.
I run an Nginx Docker container on the VM and map port 80 to port 8080 on the machine with the command
docker run --...
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How do I get hypervisor to run?
I'm trying to get Windows Sandbox and/or a hyper-v VM to run on my Windows 10 Education. I already followed all the advises I could find on the net:
Support is enabled in the BIOS (i.e SVM Mode is ...
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Disable specific shortcut in hyper-v virtual macine
I am using Windows as my main os and also running a certain version of Windows as virtual machine in hyper-v. I want to run the vm connection in full screen in a specific virtual desktop while having ...
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Can't activate Hyper-V on Windows 10
A few days ago I updated my Windows installation from "Windows 10 Home" to "Windows 10 Education", because I've got a free Key from my school. However, if I try to install the Windows Feature "Hyper-V"...
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Why Hyper-V run Windows 10 VM as remote computer?
I downloaded Windows 10 free Virtual Machine from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/, extracted the VHDX file and ran it Hyper-V in my host OS Windows 10 X64 Pro. I also ...
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Windows XP guest VM on Windows 10 host with GPU and audio
I am attempting to run a Windows XP guest VM on a Windows 10 host, with GPU acceleration and audio.
This is so that I can convert a really old XP computer with really old installed games into a VM, ...
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Windows on a virtual disk, apps on a differencing one
I'm new to hyper-v, and I'm wondering how to do the following : I'd like to have an image of fresh install of windows, and create a 'differencing' disk with some apps.
Can I then modify the parent ...
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Pass Through Multiple GPUs to Virtual Machine with Hyper-V
I followed this tutorial to try and pass through GPUs to a Hyper-V virtual machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLcc29EZ_8
My system has two NVIDIA 1080 Ti GPUs in it; and for some reason only ...
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Multiple disks on different locations in Vagrant
I have a Windows Server on which I want to create 3 virtual machines with Vagrant. Each one should have two disks attached: the primary one - SSD with 50GB of storage space and another one - HDD with ...
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Access win10 host desktop from linux guest vm?
I have the specific use case, that I want to run stuff mainly from inside the guest VM (pop os 22.04 currently, but I'm open to switching distro if the use case is easier elsewhere), without tabbing ...
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Can I route host traffic through a VPN configured in a VM?
To access network resources for my company, I need to set up a VPN on a company-managed OS. I'm using my personal laptop to work, and don't want to have it be managed by my company, so I created a VM ...
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