Networks and Servers: February 2016

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Creating Virtual Machines in Windows 10

Once you are done with the installation of Hyper-V, the creation of VMs is an easy procedure. First, you'll have to locate the Hyper-V manager icon and I suggest you place it in an easily accessible spot:

Now, all you have to do is start the Hyper-V manager and you'll be presented with an interface apparently identical to the one previously available in Server 2012.

However, this modern hypervisor has at least one option worthy of separate explanation and that is the Second Generation Virtual Machines.

Virtualization with Windows 10

Many versions of Windows 10 and Windows 8.x include the Hyper-V virtualization technology. It is the same virtualization technology previously available only in Windows Server but this desktop version is referred to as Client Hyper-V. As in server versions, it is a Type 1 hypervisor which enables you to run more than one 32-bit or 64-bit virtualized operating system at the same time on top of a single physical host.

The technical approach remains pretty much the same as it was with Windows Server 2008 but a number of other features are now available.

The management of the VMs created inside the Client Hyper-V can be performed using tools created for Server Hyper-V, such as VMM P2V or Sysinternals Disk2vhd, and Hyper-V virtual switch extensions and PowerShell scripts for managing VMs that you develop and test on Client Hyper-V, can be latter on moved to Server Hyper-V.