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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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Hyper-V get connected machine hostname / ip
Is there a method to view details of the host connected to a given Hyper-V VM? Note, this is via the Virtual Machine Connection window NOT RDP.
POWERSHELL >> Get-VM (Not seeming to have the ...
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Hyper-V machine sometimes gets stuck when enabling wsl2 (nested virtualization enabled)
I have a machine running a windows 11 VM with nested virtualization enabled.
when enabling wsl2 features and restarting the VM sometimes "halts" in the reboot process. seemingly for no ...
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Running Windows on a virtual machine vs running it on a PC
I am wondering what is the difference between running Windows on a virtual machine vs running it "normally" on the PC? I am wondering if I lose some functionality by not dual-booting Windows/...
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Hyper-V not able to start? Don't know what to do with the error message
I am using Windows 10 Education (Version 1709) and I just enabled Hyper-V and rebooted, then began by creating a new VM. This is the first time I've tried running a VM on my computer (had used them ...
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Hyper-V Cannot be installed: Virtualization is disabled in the firmware
I have installed Windows 10 Education on a Macbook using Boot Camp Assistant. I have problem with running windows server using Hyper V, because I cannot select one of the options from window "Turn ...
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Get-VM for a hyper-v , what are the differecnes between VMName & Name
I want to get a list of VMS for a Hyper-V server, so I run the following command , to get the VMs details inside hyper-v server named "hyperV01":-
PS C:\Windows\system32> Invoke-Command -...
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Does Hyper-V x64 support running Windows 11 arm64?
Looking for the way to build a software under Windows arm64 while using Windows 10 x64 as a host.
Search engine didn't show useful results.
AI mentioned some "ARM64 Emulation Tools (Hypervisor ...
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run 2 windows VMs on bare metal or one as guest on top of the other?
I am cureently running a windows 11 vm in hyper v as guest on win11 host - this is on a laptop (ryzen 2500u, 20gb RAM) - I use this as server withh desktop to run some software that reuires gui access ...
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Boot loader failed when installing windows on hyper-v vm
I try to install windows 10 Pro from ISO image, on a virtual machine just created by hyper-v.
I'm running hyper-v on window 10 pro.
The problem is that the vm won't boot from DVD controller. The ...
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Running docker inside a Windows 10 Hyper-V guest
I want to ask if anyone knows how to make Nested Virtualization work with an AMD CPU (e.g. Ryzen)?
My workstation is running inside Hyper-V, so it is essentially a VM guest however it is important ...
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Running Windows 10 insdie Windows 10 Virtual machine
I create tutorial and video courses. There are times that I want to start off from scratch in a video that I am making to show how to install a particular piece of software.
But as I am working on my ...
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Can i install Hyper-v on a Virtual Machine with Windows Server 2008 or 2012?
I need to install Hyper-V on a Virtual Machine to have different OS to try my programs.My Virtual Machine is Windows Server 2008 R2 but if i need to i could change it to 2012.Could you explane it ...
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My Hyper-V virtual machine can't boot anymore due to errors
I created a VM last week and had it running smoothly and doing exactly what I needed. Unfortunately this week whenever I try and start my VM I get an error code that says "The session was ...
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VMWare returns error "VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible" on VM Windows created on AzureAzure
I created a Windows virtual machine (Windows 10 Enterprise) - Standard E2s v3 (2 virtual processors, 16 GB of memory) - Generation V1 x64 architecture on Azure and launched it on my Windows machine. ...
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Windows Sandbox fails to connect, Error 0x80072746
Windows Sandbox has stopped working recently, despite no changes to the system or software. When launched from the Start Menu, it shows the Windows Sandbox splash screen (blue sandbox icon on a gray ...
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Use "regular" Windows 10/11 as headless VM host
I'm currently in the position that I have to use Windows on a corporate system but I am allowed to run Linux VMs inside it. Ideally, however, I'd like to be able to "deactivate" (or ...
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How can I RDP to a Hyper V virtual machine with Windows server 2022 standard
I have a dedicated server at CloudSouth running Windows server 2019. I have several dedicated IP addresses (virtual IP addresses) on my host machine for SSL purposes. I created a virtual machine ...
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"Network cable unplugged" on Cloned Hyper-V VM
I created a VM on one Hyper-V host (actually Windows Server 2022 Core). The VM is running Windows Server 2022. Works great. I have NAT running on the host and the VM is on 192.168.1.2 and using 192....
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How to install Windows / Linux Any OS In a VM without affecting the performance or encrypting the drive/partition
Hello , (:
A Backstory :
I Installed 2 Windows OS's on laptop
and I was looking for a way to get that native performance and separate the two OS's At the same time can I came on an question here on ...
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Hyper-V Windows 7 WM: no internet connection
I just installed Windows 7 on a virtual machine in Hyper-V and there is no internet connection. What I tried:
Creating a new network virtual switch.
In the settings for the WM, enabling virtual LAN ...
