How to Setup Hyper V on Windows

[@rosselliot8971]

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.

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

Thanks! You actually convinced me to switch from VMware to Hyper-V. Edit: Changed my mind. A comment below sais Vmware Player is faster than Hyper-V and I'm already familiar to VMware.

[@Robnoxious77]

I must be a tweaker, cos calling Hyper-V a joy to use is a stretch

[@bittertruthnavin]

I just discovered Hyper V years later using VMware and Virtualbox. I am installing it at this very moment to see how it goes.

[@kibagami25]

During your live stream for this, I had Virtualbox running 3 vm's on my windows 2019 server. One for plex, one for win10 and one for pihole. I converted everything over from Virtualbox to Hyper-V. It was night and day. Virtualbox VM's were super slow and super choppy. Now it takes no time to boot and working inside the vm is no longer a nightmare. I did not change anything to the hardware. Everything i changed was the software. Thanks for the help. Been in IT for years and never going to use or recommend virtualbox again.

[@alkaupadhyay7650]

I mean not everyone has pro license y'know. I get you but still tho.

[@Hamstervieh]

@@alkaupadhyay7650 you can find upgrade keys for under 20 bucks and there are workarounfs for home...

[@reminon]

@@Hamstervieh ^This

[@ultravioletiris6241]

@@alkaupadhyay7650 True but like half of the KZbinrs recommend buying VMWare Workstation Pro (because the free Player version is crap, cant even take snapshots last i checked). VMWare pro is $200 and $100 to upgrade to the new version when they have releases. So tbh a Windows Pro license is much better than that. Ive used Hyper V a bit and it absolutely performs much better than Virtualbox or VMware WS Player, without any hardware pass-through. People who are more tech savvy and want a free option with full performance should opt for Linux KVM anyway. It can be used on most of the Linux operating systems and its the basis for options such as Proxmox (also free). Hyper V has the advantage of being extremely well integrated into the Windows environment that many are used to. Its also the basis for Azure Cloud VMs. College students can get Windows 10 or 11 Education edition, which is the same as Enterprise edition and includes Hyper V. So college students can get access to Hyper V way easier than examples such as a license for VMware Pro and Parallels for Mac. But yea for absolute noobs who run Windows 10/11 Home edition and dont want to run Linux on bare metal… then there is no free type-1 hypervisor for them anyway. May as well use VirtualBox or get a free Oracle Cloud VM with 16gb of RAM and 4 cores.

[@reynolrodriguez3590]

You are by far the best Instructor on the Internet for IT instruction. I wish you and your family a safe and memorable Thanksgiving.

[@vladislavkaras491]

Really great video! I used like Hyper-V for ages, but I never knew it was possible to change default location for vhds. Thanks Chris! :D

[@MichaelJHathaway]

*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.

[@ificouldsee]

OMG! Simply hold space button down before pressing start. Also, going under action and selecting restart helps. Holding space button then pressing start did it for me.

[@bjsacker]

This is great info. I use VMWare Workstation a lot to use and maintain VM's that run software that I don't want bogging down my host. I am always looking to learn more about how virtualization works, and I am looking forward to giving Hyper-V a shot. Even if it may not be as good of a solution as running VMWare, I still love seeing how some of the other options work. Thank you for sharing this content.

[@LeDragoX]

In some moments of the video you said "Gen 2", but i heard as Gentoo :v *Btw, arch is awesome*

[@TheSkubna]

I think it's spelled jentu

[@SpeedyTubaGuy]

Honestly the reason I use VirtualBox over Hyper-V is for things like USB passthrough to test hardware implementations and stuff for USB devices to make sure drivers and such are good or to test in Linux with my audio gear. It's just a lot easier to do things like that in VBox. I wish they worked side by side better so I could do more performant things in Hyper-V and testing things in VBox

[@BlackBot1986]

One big downside from Hyper-V: There is no (easy) USB passthrough. USB Mass-storage is working i think but a Bluetooth Dongle wont. That is a blocker for me...

[@BlackBot1986]

@Bravo Six I don't use the USB passthrough for storage, for data transfer i use them network variants. For software development I need Bluetooth in the VM... Without it is for me only barely usable. ESXi can't do this? Ok I would guess they dropped it cause it is not very often needed for their use case.

[@JonLondrezos]

This is interesting. I use VMWare Player and I found it to be more performant than HyperV, especially for media/gaming. ... oh and it is free for personal use.

[@JonLondrezos]

@@hyperio546 you can always make a zip of the VM folder. I made several Powershell scripts which do just that for me. And performance wise is much better that anything else, no garbage at all.

[@JonLondrezos]

@@hyperio546 I use my VM for gaming and VMPlayer works extremely well with my NVidia when Hyper-V statters

[@Meyu-Sys]

Thank I was waiting for this after the stream

[@rafaelmanochio6990]

What i understanded is that only Hyper-V Server is being discontinued in favor of Azure HCI. Hyper-V Server is a free standalone version of Windows Server Core With Hyper-V enabled. This makes sense as WSL2 acrually uses Hyper-V as one of their core components. Maybe someone can clarify and confirm this information.

[@darylg3560]

This is how I understood it as well. I don't think Hyper-V is going away. Hyper-V Server (an OS which is super lightweight just to allow you to run VMs) will not continue but Hyper-V is still a role available in Windows Server 2022 and that doesn't go end of life until 2031.

[@thetechnoguy2010]

VMware Player -> Free VMware ESXi -> has a free license option If you want a home lab of VMware products, VMUG Advantage program for $200/yr. Includes ESXI, vCenter, vRealize products, vSAN, etc. VMware is expensive for Commercial/Enterprise use because it is an enterprise solution.

[@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)

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

Try VMware Player. It works much faster than VirtualBox. I can say Windows 10 and 11 were super laggy and barely usable on VirtualBox and on VMware they run with almost native performance as far as I can even play games on them. Also, in case you want to run more virtual machines at once, VMware Pro activation is easier to crack than Windows activation (I have experience with that one since I used many Windows 'distros' like ggOS, Ghost Spectre and Nexus Lite OS). Though, VMware has some graphics problems with Nexus Lite OS (super stretched image) and with Age of Empires 2: Conquerors (only some text is blured or something).

[@xnonsuchx]

VMWare Workstation is free for personal use, by the way, since they got rid of Player.

[@adrianteri]

Thanks CTT for doing Hyper-V after Qemu.

[@basroos_snafu]

Thank you. Interesting and useful. This video is the last step I needed to give Hyper-V a go. Nice weekend!

[@x_killert-_-x7301]

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[@VictorRosario]

Thanks for the insight very informative!

[@deez9888]

Hyper V tech is used on the Xbox One and Xbox Series but a very slimmed down version to run several OS's.

[@Innocentdarkness72]

thanks ! good weekend ...

[@NestorVass]

It disconnected my Ethernet connection when I made an external switch. I couldn't find any solution so I had to uninstall it and still have the same problem. I have wifi but still...

[@Fantic156]

I've wondered about this for a while ... thanks! ;)

[@JelmervanderMeer07]

One more optimization, do not set up the VHD during VM creation, but do it afterwards and make it a fixed size disk. Dynamically expanding has negative performance impacts.

[@bahadirm]

Pro tip for people that want to forward USB devices (no, not storage devices, other things like serial adapters, cameras, microphones, etc.): Search for information about "RemoteFX" and how to enable that function.

[@chrisdiehl8452]

The only reason why I use Virtualbox is because it is easy to setup, and use. I am not looking for long term VM machine usage. In fact I only use VM about once a month if that.

[@JayCeeCreates]

One thing that keeps me from using VMs is the fact that 3D acceleration is being overlooked.

[@roccociccone597]

On enterprise hardware you can use sr-iov to distribute your gpu and other things across multiple vms. But it isn’t available on consumer hardware because most people don’t really use it. So why include it when you charge more for it.

[@markarca6360]

Hyper-V has RemoteFX already via RDP.

[@johnr5595]

Hi. Why turn off secure boot? Will that also apply to a VM running windows 11? Thanks

[@alexcerzea]

Nop, and secure boot kinda mess up in many Linux distros based in debian, with fedora and some Arch ones, the problem doesn't exist

[@yukanolive4727]

Rdp is 1970, parsec is the way to go. very fast and with gpu passthrough so fast like a native PC. but thank, nice explanation. :)

[@ChipEstrada]

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!!!

[@MarkHyde]

I can advise I used the Powershell video resolution command to set my resolution for an AlmaLinux VM (GEN 1!!) and when I started the VM up it defaulted to starting to my default chosen resolution. HOST = Windows 11 Pro 21H2 Hyper V. :)

[@hughnailedit9885]

i kinda find qemu cumbersome to use. it's all console based and if i forget something on the cmd line i'm screwed. the only GUI for windows i know of is outdated (last release was 2017 iirc). i wonder i someone will ever make a new one. not sure why there is none made by the qemu guys themselves. hyperv at least has a gui. i'd really like to try it one day and compare it speed wise...+

[@alexcerzea]

Hyper V in Windows give me kinda the same performance as in Qemu in Linux, they are for me, at the same place in terms of performance

[@sebtheanimal]

VMWare is nice. Even nicer on Linux. VBox is just fine - it works. Muddying the waters does not work, discovering a new hypervisor. Virtual machines need to last for decades.

[@liamsilism2259]

Hello chris , i was wondering if you can make a video about ntlite , i love the details you speak about & your opinion on options , & your ranting in general when it comes to windows 10 features i'm really excited for it

[@radui7468]

Great video, thanks. What do you recomand for docker on windows? Do you think I can install macOs on Hyper-V?

[@roccociccone597]

Nah I doubt macOS works on hyper-v. Do you need docker for development? In that case use it with WSL which basically uses hyper-v tech to make it work.

[@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.

[@toniwilk3190]

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!

[@AeroAngle]

is generation 2 kinda like hpervisor 1?

[@SyberPrepper]

Great video! Why wouldn't you install Hyper-V on the bare metal and then install Windows 10 Pro as a VM? Thanks.

[@ierosgr]

Hyper-V. Microsoft's hypervisor is called Hyper-V. It is a Type 1 hypervisor that is commonly mistaken for a Type 2 hypervisor. This is because there is a client-servicing operating system running on a host.

[@domdomdomme1203]

I’m using HyperV to try out Linux mint currently, but I can’t get the sound from that VM to work no matter what I do. Is there any setting I may be missing?

[@supergoofy123]

Thank you for the video tutorial

[@smileynetsmileynet7922]

Do a video on antsle! What do you think of it? I love it!

[@smileynetsmileynet7922]

I think every business should have one!

[@stanlee4765]

Can you do a videos on how to share files between a linux hyper V and host and windows hyper V and host?

[@GrenPara]

Great video thanks for making it. I have weird question. HWinfo64 says Hyper-V is Active but When I go to add Windows festures Hyper-V is not installed as all Hyper-v options are unchecked. Is this normal as I have no idea? Thanks

[@MaxPrehl]

Hey Titus, I've gotten the enhanced session (xrdp, clipboard) stuff working before using those scripts that M$ used to maintain on github (and have since abandoned due to WSL). Like you mentioned, people have forked the repo and kept the scripts up to date and add modified versions for different distros. IMO no one should be using the crappy default console view with Hyper-V vms.

[@MaxPrehl]

There's also a known issue with VirtualBox that if you have the optional feature for Hyper-V enabled (which you need for WSL), VirtualBox performance takes a massive hit.

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

Both VMware workstation pro and virtualbox takes massive performance dump when running alongside hyper v or wsl.

[@robdavis8556]

WSL 2 only. Which is why so many people don't upgrade. Spent hours trying to get WSL 2 to work without wreaking VirtualBox and networking before going back to WSL 1.

[@ThisNoName]

run bcdedit /enum, look for hypervisorlaunchtype. It usually stays auto even if you removed hyper-v. Set it to off and other VMs will speed up, especially for virtualbox

[@altrogeruvah]

Any chance for a KZbin tutorial on setting up macOS VM on Linux?

[@artemsmushroom8386]

Thanks, great video. How to set the network to be the same as the default network on VirtualBox? VM has to have access to the Internet, and is not able to see other computers on Lan and Host.

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

VMware Player is 100% free and gives the same performance as VMware Pro. VMware pro just gives some extra options, but they are not really that important when you anyway know what you want.

[@neon-original]

hyper V works great because my vmware doesnt want to pickup my AMD V

[@scottc2211]

Could i please inquire what 10 GB adapter are you using with Windows 11 Pro? I've tried to install my Intel x540-T2 in Windows 11 and it does not recognize it - nor can i install/use the Windows 10 drivers. Currently at the moment there are not any Windows 11 drivers on Intel's site either. Thank you kindly in advance.

[@maxishappy]

Ubuntu locks the ability in settings to go any other resolution, in grub I knew what to do just not how to exit it… any way to do that part ?

[@seeingstone]

I used Windows 11 Hyper-V to create a VM running Ubuntu 22.04.2. I keep getting "Mouse input not captured". The only suggestion I've found repeatedly is to uncheck enhanced session but that doesn't work.

[@chris122380]

I had a few problems with different Linux distros getting errors either trying to see the virtual hard disk or trying to format the virtual hard disk (MX Linux and Manjaro). I installed Pop_OS instead but /etc/default/grub doesn't exist. I have been trying to run virtual operating systems on my surface Pro 4 but I keep running into a huge resolution problems or disc not recognized issue

[@kevinm3751]

I purchased your cool tool and enabled HyperV + WSL as you instructed but it only configured Hypervisor Platform. It did not install HyperV. The only difference I could see is I run PowerShell, your program for whatever reason loaded the toolbox in the basic Windows command prompt and then opened PowerShell where the actual install ran the installer from. Wonder if that might have caused an issue with the install? At any rate I had to go into Programs and Features and manually install HyperV from there. Also I am running Windows 10 Pro 64.

[@dukeshovon9447]

hi, I got stuck at 18:57 in the terminal stating : Running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system

[@YeetiusMaximusYT]

You can download a free version of VMware called VMware workstation player however you are limited at what you can do just look up VMware workstation player

[@kushajveersingh9973]

How does VMWare compare to QEMU on linux? Apart from performance, does VMWare provide extra features that are not available in QEMU and thus enterprises cannot use QEMU?

[@andrewjutub]

Is it possible to enable bluetooh in Hyper-V?

[@markarca6360]

Can I use local Hyper-V Manager to manage remote Hyper-V hosts (especially Windows Server Core with Hyper-V role)?

[@sm.saadarefin2879]

I got this error after clicking "Connect" to a machine in Hyper-v. "A Media driver your computer needs is missing " Is there any solution for it?

[@davidadesina3321]

Yo I've got a question If hyper v is bare metal then I should be able to boot straight to say Kali right? If that's true can you show how. I'm want to boot to Kali without seeing windows

[@ankylosis751]

perfect

[@thainguyen4530]

Hello. Does the new button, Enable HyperV + WSL, download anything? Thankyou

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

Is VMware Workstation Pro better or Virtualbox ?

[@Lucas-ck1po]

Guys, is it possible to "import" a VM i created in another PC using virtual box to a new one that runs Hyper-V?

[@ralkey]

i am stuck on the part that says "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD" and i cant use my keyboard for some reason

[@bence4642]

Is there any way to use a removable drive as my boot drive in Hyper-V? I have a ventoy flash drive and it works fine with VirtualBox's vmdk thing. I've tried lots of things to make it work with Hyper-V without success

[@Nomad-qm3zf]

I've been looking for this video. Got a pro license off the gray for like 9 bucks and was wondering if this was better than virtualbox.

[@herpmcderp5707]

why do you have chrome instead of chromium in your toolkit thing?

[@RobsonLuizRL]

Nice video!!

[@carisi2k11]

Ever try installing an old operating system on hyper-v? Say win98 or os2 for example.

[@chrisb9960]

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. * 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.

[@michaelhill7774]

Enhanced Session Mode enables Copy+Paste

[@patrxgt9691]

Isn't VMware Workstation Player free for personal use?

[@DevMode951]

Great video so even if you don't have pro hyper v is loaded on the home version of windows super easy to enable

[@naidoojaketheoden829]

Does that mean that i obligatory need to get the professional licsence to enable hyper-v ?

[@alexcerzea]

Yo can activate it in the console manager with PowerShell

[@opoxious1592]

Is virtualisation the same as emulation?

[@dlfzstuff4343]

Please show how to fix the sound l can’t get that feature working thanks !!!

[@By_Rant_Or_Ruin]

My networking simply can not connect and often shuts down my network connection like windows used to do when the same IP was given for to separate hosts. I followed your video and everything checked as far as I can tell. But every virtual host looks for network through my assigned switch and has no connection. Oy.

[@accountid9681]

gen two, or gentoo?

[@-Sunny--]

Can i wish for a kiosk-mode multi app -episode?

[@adrianteri]

What about the Mac to get the trifecta?

[@paradox8038]

Can you make an iOS VM using HyperV?

[@MadManX668]

How can I download the tool? i tried copying the link but it did not work you are going really fast

[@NikolaRistoski-m7f]

I have no luck in getting the sound to work in Hyper V - Ubuntu 22.04. Anyone have this problem solved?

[@FreddyBL]

Did anyone get the audio to work?

[@RonyAhmd]

set-vm -VMName manjaro KDE -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvScokeckt

[@omarnaser8291]

can it work on old windows Operating system like vista

[@alexcerzea]

Nop

[@pibogdanov]

Hi, Chris! I love your videos! I have an awesome idea for a video that everyone would like. Can you make a video about how to restore a deleted file/files from Windows? Oh, and one more thing, can you make a video about services.msc page what can be disabled/stopped and can it be added to the windows debloat tools.

[@MartinAhlman]

Virtualbox fucked up the my USB-headset? How? Bu trying to fix SB in virtualbok. Great job again, Oracle! Again? Why?

[@Runar_W]

i get super laggy mouse input with ubuntu 21.10 on win 11.. 5900x 32gb x570

[@adrianteri]

If they are pushing everyone to WSL why not just jump over to the Linux Kernel once and for all? The GPL?

[@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.

[@myslav1805]

Something to note: your entire windows will take a performance hit when you enable hyper-v. It was about a 15% hit on cpu and even more on memory bandwidth and latency, for me on i7 8750h

[@gsbence]

You can try deactivating Hyper-V if you need the resources for something else without removing Hyper-V entirely and reactivate it when needed. Command to disable: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off Command to enable: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto After each change, you have to reboot.

[@myslav1805]

@@gsbence That is true, but probably not worth it still. For real virtualization it's better to use linux.

[@quarteratom]

Warning: turning this Windows feature on permanently removes 10s of GBs of space from your C drive, that you can't even get back by disabling the feature. Turning it off actually gave me a BSOD after a while.

[@animegamer3336]

@2:04 Arch users trying to execute Neofetch every 5 minutes be like :

[@bulcub]

can i run ur script on a barebones machine?

[@trialtest-rp7zg]

Is Hyper V free to download?

[@catav6018]

I think the free Hyper-V Server 2019 is going away in 2029, the windows features hyper-v should be staying, unless i read the articles wrong.