How to Setup Hyper V on Windows - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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John
From memory, MS server licencing allows 2 HyperV Win server guest OS boxes to be licenced on the one Win Server licence, as well as including the HyperV physical host box running all under the same Win Server licence.
My only beef with using Win server HyperV is windows updates forcing themselves to restart the HyperV physical host box at innoportune times.
Best way I found to apply win updates to HyperV systems is:
1) Make sure you have an iDRAC/iLO to monitor the physical HyperV box reboot server console if working remote due to lockdowns or geographic distance.
2) Kick off pre win updates on all boxes & disable auto restarts hours before
3) Shut down all the non AD guest boxes
4) Shutdown the AD box last.
5) Apply win updates to the HyperV host box & restart (check multiple times to ensure there aren't pending updates & restart box & re-check for cumulative updates)
6) Bring up the HyperV guest AD box & apply updates same as physical HyperV box
7) Bring up non-AD HyperV guest boxes & apply updates.
I found that the 3rd week of the month works a treat to give 1 week buffer warning just in case dodgy updates pop through on Patch Tuesday (2nd Tue of month) ie Kyocera BSOD due to it blowing up on IT forums as the 4th week is typically EOM & payroll/accounts are usually snowed under.
Great thing about HyperV is it works a treat for turnkey OS boxes running legacy OS ie security systems
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From memory, MS server licencing allows 2 HyperV Win server guest OS boxes to be licenced on the one Win Server licence, as well as including the HyperV physical host box running all under the same Win Server licence.
My only beef with using Win server HyperV is windows updates forcing themselves to restart the HyperV physical host box at innoportune times.
Best way I found to apply win updates to HyperV systems is:
1) Make sure you have an iDRAC/iLO to monitor the physical HyperV box reboot server console if working remote due to lockdowns or geographic distance.
2) Kick off pre win updates on all boxes & disable auto restarts hours before
3) Shut down all the non AD guest boxes
4) Shutdown the AD box last.
5) Apply win updates to the HyperV host box & restart (check multiple times to ensure there aren't pending updates & restart box & re-check for cumulative updates)
6) Bring up the HyperV guest AD box & apply updates same as physical HyperV box
7) Bring up non-AD HyperV guest boxes & apply updates.
I found that the 3rd week of the month works a treat to give 1 week buffer warning just in case dodgy updates pop through on Patch Tuesday (2nd Tue of month) ie Kyocera BSOD due to it blowing up on IT forums as the 4th week is typically EOM & payroll/accounts are usually snowed under.
Great thing about HyperV is it works a treat for turnkey OS boxes running legacy OS ie security systems
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Chip
Awesome video. I needed windows for school, but I also needed Linux for school too. I found after much experimentation that you get better performance running Linus as the main OS then load Windows as the VM. I was able to run Windows and a couple of Linux machines in a Virtual network on my mid grade laptop without issues. But with Windows as my main OS I could barely run one Linux VM. My Windows VM expeience was flawless (for windoze) and I could use my Linux Test VM at the same time with out problem. I have no quallifing factors for running Windows on a PC except for a Company enviorment where it is expected.
I have a mid grade $400 laptop from Cosco member sale price (saved $100) Lenove Idea pad3, Ryzen 7 5700 series with Ryzen on a chip. 12 GB mem (max). I run Linux Mint and play games off Steam and GOG with Lutri (See Chris Titus Tech for set up) I play all kinds of windows only video games with no issues. Diablo III on Battle Tech and many others. You want or have to vertualize on a Windows platform, then you have to use Windows Server for any performance, or..... use Linux.
P.S. Chris, you are a genius, mad respect! you have taught me so much and I learn more and more every time I watch your show!!!
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Awesome video. I needed windows for school, but I also needed Linux for school too. I found after much experimentation that you get better performance running Linus as the main OS then load Windows as the VM. I was able to run Windows and a couple of Linux machines in a Virtual network on my mid grade laptop without issues. But with Windows as my main OS I could barely run one Linux VM. My Windows VM expeience was flawless (for windoze) and I could use my Linux Test VM at the same time with out problem. I have no quallifing factors for running Windows on a PC except for a Company enviorment where it is expected.
I have a mid grade $400 laptop from Cosco member sale price (saved $100) Lenove Idea pad3, Ryzen 7 5700 series with Ryzen on a chip. 12 GB mem (max). I run Linux Mint and play games off Steam and GOG with Lutri (See Chris Titus Tech for set up) I play all kinds of windows only video games with no issues. Diablo III on Battle Tech and many others. You want or have to vertualize on a Windows platform, then you have to use Windows Server for any performance, or..... use Linux.
P.S. Chris, you are a genius, mad respect! you have taught me so much and I learn more and more every time I watch your show!!!
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-Michael
-Great HyperV video, Thanks!- Vmware does have free setups to try, like Vmware player and vSphere Hypervisor. vSphere does not rely on another operating system, it is OS independent, so you don-t need a Windows license. And it-s foot print is only 144 megabytes.
Everyone wants to compare their software to Vmware. But Vmware is highly underrated. Vmware is 1000 times more powerful than Virtualbox and these other free setups. Yes the larger services cost money. You get Hypervisor that powers vSphere and vCenter Server. You get containers and Kubernetes Clusters. You get fluid and responsive 3D graphics with DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5 with up to 8Gb of memory for virtual machines and games. And you can create and configure complex IPv4/IPv6 virtual networks for your VMs. Vmware also has Cloud technology and Cloud Security, Telco Cloud with 5G and NSX, health state carbon black workload, Tanzu mesh service Disaster and site recovery.
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-Great HyperV video, Thanks!- Vmware does have free setups to try, like Vmware player and vSphere Hypervisor. vSphere does not rely on another operating system, it is OS independent, so you don-t need a Windows license. And it-s foot print is only 144 megabytes.
Everyone wants to compare their software to Vmware. But Vmware is highly underrated. Vmware is 1000 times more powerful than Virtualbox and these other free setups. Yes the larger services cost money. You get Hypervisor that powers vSphere and vCenter Server. You get containers and Kubernetes Clusters. You get fluid and responsive 3D graphics with DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5 with up to 8Gb of memory for virtual machines and games. And you can create and configure complex IPv4/IPv6 virtual networks for your VMs. Vmware also has Cloud technology and Cloud Security, Telco Cloud with 5G and NSX, health state carbon black workload, Tanzu mesh service Disaster and site recovery.
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gwgux
Linux GUIs never work right in VMs, and it's not a Hyper-V thing. I've had resolution issues on every distro I've run and on every hypervisor I've run them on (Hyper-V, QEMU, ESXi, VMware Workstation, Virtualbox, etc.). Most often it starts out OK, then sometime later down the road, something always inevitably breaks it. It's gotten so I just don't like running any Linux system with a GUI in a VM and if I do, I just plan on having to sometimes work in a small environment for when the resolution inevitably reverts back. I usually use the most basic of basic graphical environments for my Linux VMs so things like Fluxbox, LXQT, etc. and without any compositor effects, with a heavy reliance on virtual desktops. Things like Gnome or KDE just aren't practical for a VM environment IMO.
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Linux GUIs never work right in VMs, and it's not a Hyper-V thing. I've had resolution issues on every distro I've run and on every hypervisor I've run them on (Hyper-V, QEMU, ESXi, VMware Workstation, Virtualbox, etc.). Most often it starts out OK, then sometime later down the road, something always inevitably breaks it. It's gotten so I just don't like running any Linux system with a GUI in a VM and if I do, I just plan on having to sometimes work in a small environment for when the resolution inevitably reverts back. I usually use the most basic of basic graphical environments for my Linux VMs so things like Fluxbox, LXQT, etc. and without any compositor effects, with a heavy reliance on virtual desktops. Things like Gnome or KDE just aren't practical for a VM environment IMO.
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Ross
After years of using Vagrant/Virtualbox on Windows 7 for local development, when I finally moved to Windows 10 and discovered Hyper-V I was blown away by its speed, ease of setup and reliability. It was a revolution to ne after the slow, quirky and downright buggy performance of my previous setup.
Hyper-V is a joy to use. It's quick, stable and almost configuration-free unless you're a tweaker. It just works. I often have two VMs running Ubuntu going at the same time, and in 16GB of RAM, no issues. Hell, even if you reboot your host machine, Windows saves the VM state and reboots them automatically when the host is booted.
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After years of using Vagrant/Virtualbox on Windows 7 for local development, when I finally moved to Windows 10 and discovered Hyper-V I was blown away by its speed, ease of setup and reliability. It was a revolution to ne after the slow, quirky and downright buggy performance of my previous setup.
Hyper-V is a joy to use. It's quick, stable and almost configuration-free unless you're a tweaker. It just works. I often have two VMs running Ubuntu going at the same time, and in 16GB of RAM, no issues. Hell, even if you reboot your host machine, Windows saves the VM state and reboots them automatically when the host is booted.
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Toni
Hello Chris,
Thanks for all the good work you are doing for Linux, I have a helpdesk for Linux users here and there are more and more. But I have something curious to ask you. On all Ubuntu based distros I never have problems, they usually find the wifi signal instantly, but when I have to configure an Arch based distro it never finds the wifi signal and always offers it wired, what can I do to fix this prevent the future?
Many greetings from the other side of the world, from Antwerp, which can be found in Europe in the most difficult country called Belgium!
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Hello Chris,
Thanks for all the good work you are doing for Linux, I have a helpdesk for Linux users here and there are more and more. But I have something curious to ask you. On all Ubuntu based distros I never have problems, they usually find the wifi signal instantly, but when I have to configure an Arch based distro it never finds the wifi signal and always offers it wired, what can I do to fix this prevent the future?
Many greetings from the other side of the world, from Antwerp, which can be found in Europe in the most difficult country called Belgium!
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Chris
Had a problem with my Win 10 restore after trying to swap out a hard drive to an SSD.
The error says,
The system image restore failed.
Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware.
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The system image was created on a computer using with an MBR partition. My System recovery makes an EFI on the usb drive. Asking how to make an MBR recovery so I can restore using my backup. I don-t feel like reinstalling Win 10 from scratch.
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Had a problem with my Win 10 restore after trying to swap out a hard drive to an SSD.
The error says,
The system image restore failed.
Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware.
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The system image was created on a computer using with an MBR partition. My System recovery makes an EFI on the usb drive. Asking how to make an MBR recovery so I can restore using my backup. I don-t feel like reinstalling Win 10 from scratch.
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Anh
For my Hyper-V VMs, I also use the enhanced session mode along with running the xrdp script which would drop into an xrdp session login screen on VM startup. It handles resolution and keyboard/mouse inputs way better. To enable this, an additional step is that you'd need to run (powershell admin) ---Set-VM -VMName -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket---
I tested up to Ubuntu 21.10; for Arch-based, it is quite finnicky and more or less based on your luck -
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For my Hyper-V VMs, I also use the enhanced session mode along with running the xrdp script which would drop into an xrdp session login screen on VM startup. It handles resolution and keyboard/mouse inputs way better. To enable this, an additional step is that you'd need to run (powershell admin) ---Set-VM -VMName -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket---
I tested up to Ubuntu 21.10; for Arch-based, it is quite finnicky and more or less based on your luck -
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Robnoxious77
gave up on hyper v when I tried to get things like copy paste and decent mouse integration working with ubuntu as a guest. Vbox might be slower but the reduction in frustration just trying to do simple things is so worth it. After finding a microsoft forum where people had been complaining about the lack of a fix in hyper v for 5 years i figured i can handle slightly laggy (which tbh is barely noticeable)
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gave up on hyper v when I tried to get things like copy paste and decent mouse integration working with ubuntu as a guest. Vbox might be slower but the reduction in frustration just trying to do simple things is so worth it. After finding a microsoft forum where people had been complaining about the lack of a fix in hyper v for 5 years i figured i can handle slightly laggy (which tbh is barely noticeable)
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lepompier132
If they handicaped Hyper-V, they want to be sure that no one use older version of Windows in a VM. Because many that use Qemu/KVM on linux use it to use Windows 7 and even XP in order to run older windows software with active licenses that are still good, but won't work at all under Windows 10. I know someone that use a VM to run native DOS programs, because they run faster on newer machine.
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If they handicaped Hyper-V, they want to be sure that no one use older version of Windows in a VM. Because many that use Qemu/KVM on linux use it to use Windows 7 and even XP in order to run older windows software with active licenses that are still good, but won't work at all under Windows 10. I know someone that use a VM to run native DOS programs, because they run faster on newer machine.
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