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I'm trying to set up some VMs using Hyper-V on my personal computer running Windows 11. I'm able to create VMs but whenever I start and try to connect to them, I get a problem saying I'm unable to connect, seemingly after timing out the attempt. This happens regardless of VM OS, and started when I was running Windows 10. I haven't been able to create a VM that works either using quick create or making one more involvedly. I suspect that this is network-related somehow, as I was able to connect to a VM a single time when I started trying to do this, but it cut off my host's network connection.

Hi, I have installed a COMPLETE and FULL version of Kali Linux on Windows 11 Pro Hyper-V virtual machine with 4GB RAM and 3 CPUs with boot drive encryption however after a virtual machine reboot to boot into Kali Linux for the first thing it asks is my boot drive encryption password and whatever i do i cannot use ANY keyboard inputs/mouse AT all and it sucks i have spend an hour or more installing the damn Kali Linux OS and it just won't respond to my keyboard inputs in Hyper-V console even when i edit the boot grub before booting to remove Quiet/Interface and get a standard Linux boot style with outputs it asks for boot drive encryption again and it just does NOT respond to any of my inputs from my regular usb keyboard at all and my mouse isn't working either nothing works no response i am just hard stuck without the possibility of entering my encryption password at all it sucks *** help me please Thanks

Hi! I'm trying to connect to a virtual machine running on a remote PC. I set up wireguard VPN in hopes of it just working, but it does not. Any ideas on how to get this working?

So i was just gonna check up on my server pc that hosts my steamcache library. And the VM is completly black? Ive tried restarting botht the VM and the Host PC. Nothing helps, also tried adding more storage to the VM. How to fix this? https://imgur.com/fj8CPoU

Hello! wondering if anyone knows what the maximum number of virtual machines i can run on a windows 11 pro host. Thanks, DA

I'm trying to set up a Hyper-V VM but if I attempt to connect the the VM is just says 'Cannot coonect to the virtual machine...' but what's interesting is the preview works fine.... I have no clue what is wrong with it. I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021. Things I've tried: Disabling and Re-enabling Hyper-v (via Turn Windows Features on & off) Restarting VMMS service Checking to make the VMMS is listening on the right port (2179) Disabling NUMA spanning Creating a new VM Disabling Windows Firewall Removing vmconnect.exe from Windows Security Exploit Protection thing Adding my user to the Hyper-V Administrator group Probably something else I forgot Any more ideas?

Hello! So I have gone through the entire setup process for a Hyper-V Machine Setup, I have RTSS, Virtual Audio Drivers, Parsec, GPU Drivers, and everything, but I am wondering how I do the "1 pc 2 gamers" thing, because I cannot get it to work... how do I do the thing to do that? can I do it with a low end old gaming pc (integrated graphics)? Or can I do it with the local pc? just with two sets of peripherals plugged in? Or do I have to have another computer? Would love some answers thanks!!

My question is, is it possible to make a physical usb port entirely set to be used exclusively for a VM. I mean, you plug something in the port, it won't ever show up and be accessed on the host. I use VMware workstation and the closest behaviour i can get is simply redirect any usb device connected while a VM is running to the foreground VM. If i then close said VM, the usb device will automatically be connected to the host. If no VM is running to begin with, the usb device will connect to the host. I don't want that, i want the USB port to be accessed ONLY by a VM, not by the host, ever. I'd like a usb port on my machine to be kinda safe to plug random stuff in that could ONLY be accessed in a VM environment with no potential (or at least less) room for mistake. Stuff like a rubber ducky, random "usb drive" found on the parking lot etc. You know what i'm talking about. I can also use Hyper-V if this behaviour isn't possible on workstation but is on Hyper-V. Also, if it can be done on Proxmox i'll take the tips also for my knowledge. I guess I'd need a Type I hypervisor for that kind of stuff? Thanks!

I have a server that I am using as a seed box and nas however, I want to expand my home network with a local vpn so that I can set up remote access to the nas and have better security in general. Is it advisable to use virtualization to host the vpn and these other services on the same machine? I would also likely switch to using a dedicated nas os as right now I'm just using a smb share on ubuntu server. The computer itself is quite overbuilt for what it is doing currently with an i7 7700es 8gb of ddr4 3200 and gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 so I don't think performance would be an issue. Unfortunately googling for this just results in people asking if they can connect to a vpn when using a hypervisor so now I'm bothering you guys, thank you in advance.

I have a old server that runs windows server 2019 and want to run hyper-v but i cant becaz the cpu doesnt support slat. is it possible to install a version of hyper-v like from windows server 2008 R2?

Hi there, i worked to create an easy version of the popular easy-gpu-p script. right now it has the capabilities to select the operation (new vm, existing vm add gpu-p and drivers, update gpu-p drivers) and input the values without editing the files directly. i hope that someone like that already has vm running appreciates the ability to straightforward add gpu-p + drivers with this menu. Link: Easy-GPU-PV With Menu

So I have 4 VMs that friends use to host game servers and other stuff on but I am trying to find a way to still allow the VMs internet access without allowing them to access devices on the same LAN as the server (i.e. everything else in my house). I assume the best way to do this is with VLANs but I can not figure out how to set that up, right now the router is running pfSense and I'm using an external vSwitch in Hyper-V so the VMs all show up on the same LAN as the server and that works but it has access to everything on that LAN. If I create a VLAN for the LAN interface on pfSense and assign it the same tag as the virtual switch on a VM the VM can't reach the router at all (I can't ping 192.168.4.1 (which should be the router)). pfSense Interface: pfSense VLANs: VM network adapter settings: If anyone has any ideas or a different way of doing this that would be awesome...

Hey you amazing bunch off smarties im looking for help or direction ive got my little gaming machine AMD ryzen 5600 with NVidia 2060 16 GB ram So long story short im trying to use hyper-v so that when my daughter spends the weekends with me we can play minecraft together i want to have the vm running on my second display (tv) with its own Keyboard n mouse and a controller so far ive managed to set up the vm with internet, no sound, no gpu pass thought and it uses the same keyboard and mouse as my host im sure its possbile to do it just need some one to point me in the right direction really sorry if i posted this in the wrong place i looked it up but i dont know the jargon for half the things im researching

so i want to disable hyper-v since with it enabled i can't run a VM (my processor is Celeron N3150 (Brasswell)) and i just installed WSL and hyper-v got enabled, and i go search how to disable it, found microsoft documentation, but it didn't work in any ways, powershell ? failed, control panel (turn windows features on or off) ? failed as well, idk what to do again, this isn't a urgent thing but i hope you guys can help me (the instruction i followed : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/application-management/virtualization-apps-not-work-with-hyper-v )

Hi, This will be my first post in this forum. So straight to the point: I have setup my PC to use Hyper-V and have been facing a problem with networking. I have added an external virtual switch in order to access my VMs from other computers within the network. Just last night I have noticed that since setting up Hyper-V with external switch, I've been experiencing random disconnections from the internet. This was especially annoying because I noticed this while playing some Left 4 Dead with friends. To be more specific, these disconnects happen in such a manner: PC will lose connection momentarily for approximately 5-10 seconds Connection is restored for around 30 seconds PC will lose connection momentarily once again for approximately 5-10 seconds Connection will be restored again, until such disconnects happen again Out of curiosity, after that gaming session I ran a ping -t on cmd and left my PC overnight. The following morning showed that I've lost around 30 packets throughout the time the command was run. Searching through the event viewer showed me event ID 22, 24, 21 and 23 recurring overnight. I've attached the screenshot of event viewer for reference. Several solutions that I've tried consist of the following: Disabled Virtual Machine Queue for all VMs in Hyper-V Manager Updated my Realtek ethernet drivers Deleted the external switch and created a new one Restarting the PC (cuz why not) All solutions however, have been to no avail. I'm still experiencing these issues at seemingly random intervals. I've searched everywhere and I have not yet seen anyone that has experienced the exact same problem as me so I'm really getting kinda desperate here and any possible solutions are very much welcome. Here are my PC specs: Ryzen 5 3600 GTX 1660 Super Asrock B450M Steel Legend G-Skill TridentZ Neo 32GB (4X8GB) 3200 MHz Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1, Build 19043.1110 Thanks in advance!

I hope I'm on the right sub-forum. Hi, I'm attempting to run Manjaro in Hyper-V, but it refuses to boot. It keeps giving me an error: Could not initiate memory: Not enough memory resources are available to complete this operation. (0x8007000E). Here's a screenshot of the error with the Task Manager. I've already tried lowering my RAM to 1024MB, but it still won't run. Here's a screenshot of my settings. Here are my specs: Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 BIOS: N2XET29W (1.19) Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 (OS Build 19042.1083) i5-10210U 1 x 16GB DDR4 @ 3200MHz 256GB NVMe SSD Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hiya I am wondering if anyone has had any experience with what I'm trying to do or if anyone is able to offer up any advice... All of this is in the context of a small business with roughly 6 employees (pc based). We currently have a windows 10 desktop PC acting as our primary server. From this PC we manage our databases, store all of our files and run our proprietary software for our employees (as it needs live access to the databases). All of our company data is stored on and backed up to this server and from here we backup to another on-site physical device which is hidden in an undisclosed fire-proof safe which in turn backs up to the cloud. 3 users have physical desktops on which they work and access the server. We have a 4th desktop pc for processing and specific tasks and then 3 users who access the server via laptops either connected to the network physically or remotely via RDP/VPN. For particular security, legislative and efficiency reasons, we need to do a fairly large upgrade which would involve new windows licenses, new hardware etc. In evaluating my options, there are two main options I see solving the problem. Upgrade the server and all physical desktops. Upgrade the server and set up VM's for all users, on-site and remote. (has particular security features I'm very interested in and also less to break or upgrade in the future.) Cost isn't really a big concern although it needs to be justifiable. I have no experience with VM's. My concerns/questions: Can we configure the VM's to run on the existing desktops/laptops? For basic operation, office suite, adobe acrobat, very low demand proprietary apps and basic web browsing (mostly simultaneous) what would the requirements be for each user in terms of CPU and memory allocation? Or rather, if all 8 users (and server overhead) were running, what would the ideal/min server hardware specs look like? I estimate on average 4GB memory making 32GB total? CPU something like an i7 (gen?)? In the event of a hardware failure on the server, how quickly/easily could we have it back up considering we have data backups and potentially replacement hardware? Would I need to purchase a copy of Windows for each VM or is there a way around that? Would Windows 10 be suitable for the server itself or would I be considerably better off with something else? My hope is that we would have a similar cost input to upgrading the physical machines with the added benefits of security, less physical hardware to break, better future upgradability, scalability etc. I chose Hyper-V because it's made by Microsoft and seems the best fit. Please feel free to leave your thoughts or make other suggestions.

I've long wanted to experiment with using a virtual machine to run a ZFS raid and export that ZFS raid as an iSCSI block device to the host. It was just an idea, but with the new system I built it became a necessity. I built a triple use workstation for gaming, DAW and software development. I used two Windows 10 Pro boot partitions for gaming and the other for the DAW. The dev partition is Ubuntu 20.04. The problem? You can't share raid storage between Windows and Linux, except maybe if you dedicate a raid controller with drivers for both. Those are expensive, especially when they involve 4xNVME drives. I also have 2 x 6TB Seagate Ironwolf drives (nearline backups) and 3 x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo drives (mid speed storage). I use all this storage for my Windows Daw and for my software engineering work. I really needed to raid it all between two different operating systems. So, I tried my idea. For the test I used a pair of the Evos. One of the Evos is actually dedicated as a boot solution for the three OS partitions. I still haven't found a cross-platform way to BOOT raid from the same drives so one of the Evo is devoted to that. The Ubuntu VM config: Hyper-V with Ubuntu 20.04 2 cpus 3 GB Ram 1 Virtual Nic 2 x Samsung 970 Evos with 2 TB capacity ZFS "raid 0" Open-scsi target on a block device that used 80% of the raid pair. The Windows 10 Pro Host config: x3950 64 Gigs Ram Microsoft iSCSI Initiator NTFS formatting of the attached iSCSI device I actually tried a lot of different configurations of virtual cpus and ram. Anything over 2 cpus performed worse. Anything over 3 gigs of ram performed worse. The worst performances was 32 cpus and 32 gigs of ram. Well, when you see the results in the attached capture of ATTO, you'll see that it isn't possible to go read FASTER than the iSCSI solution as I slammed up against SATA transfer rates. Also 1 cpus and 1 gig of memory was pretty good, only about 10% less performant that 2 cpus and 3 gigs. Unfortunately, writes are not quite up to snuff, I think that somehow I was only able to write to the drives one at a time. In task manager I would see the two drives oscillate with the writes. This is more of proof of concept than a real benchmark. Maybe someone will want to run with this and do a better benchmark? I haven't tried the Ubuntu side yet, but I did a really simple POC of the whole solution with an attached USB drive and Ubuntu could read the NTFS partition on the ZFS block device just fine. I'm curious to see if its faster or slower than the iscis over virtual nic. I may also do this with the 4 x NVME but right now I have a coding project I don't want to disrupt with backing up the NVME dynamic disk raid and restoring it with ZFS over iSCSI. Images attached are the ATTO benchmark and one of the time times when I caught the Evo bumping up against SATA limits during the run of the benchmarks.

Running Ubuntu 18.04 normal via Hyper-V (using it as steamcache server) I shut down the VM - the tried to boot into Ubuntu VM again and got a black screen - in GNU im trying to repair borken packages and i get this: https://imgur.com/a/xlcJ47k This is the SSD i have the VM in, it clearly has enough disk space, so whats the problem? Disk info in Hyper-v also shows there should be space Edit: System-summary shows disk is full - how and why? With 500GB of cached games on the VM - i sadly, had to reinstall ubuntu. This time i made sure that the disk size was sett to 930Gb - insted of 465.

I'm having issues trying to get emulation running on Android Studio and I was hoping someone has an idea on how to get it working? I recently rebuilt my PC going from I7-6850k to AMD 3900X with new Mobo and faster RAM. Prior to the rebuild I had it working with no problem, so I don't know if it's a compatibility issue with the Intel Software on AMD, but from what I've researched I can see other people are able to use it, so I must be missing a step somewhere? The error I get on trying to install is: If I try to run the installer directly I get a similar error message: I can confirm that Virtualisation is working as I use VirtualBox a lot. Confirmed in Task Manager: I've confirmed that HyperVisor is unavailable in Windows Features and HyperVisor Plaftorm is enabled (apparently it needs that to run the emulation) I also confirmed that Windows Defender Core Isolation is disabled (as it uses Hyper-V to perform it's task) But I'm stuck. I can't see what else I need to enable to get it working and without the emulation running I can't check what I'm doing *sad beeps*

Hello, folks, At the moment we have a number of VMs running on Hyper-V. The hypervisors are included in several failover clusters. During maintenance these machines are manually updated by removing the server from the cluster. Then an updated image is rolled out again and added to the cluster. Does anyone have a solution to automate this process as much as possible? The servers are managed via System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

Im trying to set up a steam cache server on a vm. But i cant ping the vm machine from my main computer. Whats wrong? The vm can connect to the internet on its own, but i cant ping it locally Im using hyper-v as virutalization. I have 2 vms running. 1 is running pihole. 2 (trying to run steamcache) - but i cant even ping it.... the dns on the steamcache is the pihole dns. Didnt help to change it to 1.1.1.1 Both are using the same viritual internet switch - is that the problem? The Steamcache IP shows up in router

Hi guys, we are trying to convert 3 windows ESXI instances to Hyper-V as out customer would like to move to hyper-v. We decided to use the starwind V2V converter after some success with in office testing. When we came to doing the project live we were able to convert 2 out of the 3 instances. the 2 we converted were set up in Legacy mode. The last one which is the Domain controller is a UEFI Windows Server 2012R2 instance. it converts successfully but when we try to launch the Gen-2 instance in hyper-v, we see the spinning dots and the get an error of "windows has encountered an error and will reboot" I believe it also says inaccessible boot device but the screen only appears for millisecond before rebooting. After a second attempt with the same results it loads into recovery mode. unfortunately the customer does not know the root / recovery AD password as we need that to open CMD to try running some commands. We have left everything as in on the ESXI and left it there. We have also booted into a ISO image and tried all the bootrec / bcdedit commands suggested online but none of them work. We tried doing a Acronis 12.5 Backup of the server and then restore it as a VM this also failed with the same simptoms we also installed a shell server 2012R2 in UEFI mode and the tried to restore the C drive from the server to the C drive of the shell 2012r2 but the results were still the same. We have created a ESXI VMDK as well to test in office to see if we can boot that on our test environment and try to perform some more in house testing. Does anyone have any suggestions we could try ? not sure why the boot device is inaccessible after the conversion. all the other servers had no issues. Thanks !

I can't enable virtualization technology. I tried disabling Hyper-V and tried to enable vt-x in BIOS settings, but it won't enable. Any solutions?

I have had the best experience thus far with VirtualBox out of the many VM solutions I have tried on Windows (despite its XP-esque GUI styling). But please, change my mind - what is your go to VM solution, and why? Which one gives you the easiest snapshot, restore, and network isolation.