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Enable and Configure Hyper-V on Windows 8 step by step

Hyper-v is virtualization solution is now available on Windows 8. You can read more about

Hyper-v here.

and you dont have windows 8. you can buy and download it from here.

Hyper-V is not enabled by default on windows 8. For enabling this

go to Control Panel >> Programs and Features >> on the left panel Click on Turn Windows

features on or off.

Select Hyper-V option and Click on OK.

Once the installation done. It will prompt to reboot machine.

After machine restarted you can see Hyper-v on start metro interface.

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Create New Virtual Machine

1) Open Hyper-V manager, on the right panel Click on New option Select New Virtual

Machine

2) Click on Next.

3) Enter Name of Virtual Machine and by selecting check box you can change Virtual Disk

location where it will be stored.

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4) Specify amount of memory to allocate to virtual drive.

Select Use Dynamic Memory for this virtual machine. Click on Next.

This will allocation only amount of memory that is needed for your virtual machine

remaining can be

used by host machine.

5) Select Network Adapter which is available on your machine and Click on Next button.

If its your first time, I will explain later in this post, how to Create Network Adapter.

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6) Now you can set how much memory you have to allocate to Virtual Disk. by default itsset to 127 GB.

I keep as it is. Now here, you can see the extension of virtual machine is .VHDX which is

new format introduced

in Hyper-V 3 which supports data storage capacity of 64 TB.

Also you can attach existing virtual machine by selecting second option and even you can

attach virtual disk

later.

I am selecting first option.

7) Attach ISO image of any operating system which you want to install by selecting second

option.

Click on Next.




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8) Click on Finish button to create virtual machine. If you want to change any settings you

can click on Previous button and can do that.

In Hyper-V manager you can see my Virtual Machine named Windows Server has been

created.




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Create Network Adapter

To create Network adaption go to option Virtual Switch Manager option from the right

sidebar option.

Select Internal switch type if you want to connect virtual disk to the Physical Machine.

Using this switch youcan not access physical network oh the host machine.

Click on Create Virtual Switch.

Give name to Internal Switch and Click on OK.




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And Now go to Hyper-V Manager, Right click on Virtual Machine and Click on Settings.

Click on Network Adapter option from left panel. and Select newly created Network

Adapter switch.

Create External Wi-Fi Network Adapter

Select External Network adapter and click on OK.




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Enter name for switch External wi-fi Ethernet and select External Network card from

dropdown list and click Apply

and Ok.

Start Virtual Machine

Right click on Virtual machine and click on Start option, this will start virtual machine. and

double click on Virtual Machine

then Hyper-V Virtual Machine connection will open.

Start installation of OS.

Once OS is installed. Go to Action tab from Menu and select Insert Integration Services

Setup Disk .




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The Integration Services are software packages that improve integration between

the virtualization server and the virtual machine.

Machine will reboot after installation of Integration Services.

Learn more about how to configure Network Adapters.

Remote Desktop to your Virtual Machine from Host Machine

For remote desktop to your virtual machine from your host machine you need to enable

remote desktop.

Go to System Properties from Control Panel and Select Remote Settings option. Under

Remote tab

select second option Allow connections from computers running any version of

Remote Desktop

Now you need IP address of virtual machine for remote desktop.

Get the IP address of virtual machine and Open Remote Desktop Connection on host /

physical machine

by typing mstsc in RUNEnter IP address of your virtual machine and click on Connect.

Next a window will pop up for Security Credentials.

Username will be your : Computer name\Username

Password will be your user password for that username.




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Thats it. you will be logged in to your virtual machine from Remote Desktop Connection.

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Anonymous February 11, 2013 at 1:26 AM

I think you should mention if you're only able to do this in Windows 8

Pro. I have Windows 8 Basic and I don't have the option to enable

Hyper-V in Windows Features, even after enabling the option in BIOS.

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