Integration with Windows
Hyper-V is deeply integrated into the Windows OS, providing a seamless and consistent user experience, as well as better performance and easy management through familiar Windows tools.
Cost
Hyper-V is included with Windows Server and certain editions of Windows 10 and 11 at no additional cost, making it a cost-effective virtualization solution for businesses already using these Microsoft products.
Live Migration
Hyper-V supports live migration, allowing virtual machines to be moved between hosts without downtime, which is essential for load balancing, maintenance, and failover scenarios.
Scalability
Hyper-V supports large-scale virtualization environments and can handle large numbers of virtual machines, making it suitable for enterprise environments.
Security Features
Hyper-V includes robust security features like Secure Boot, Shielded VMs, and integration with Windows Defender, providing enhanced protection for virtualized workloads.
I ran the following command based on this guide: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All. Source: almost 3 years ago
Also, you can enable Hyper-V on windows under KVM then all but the most paranoid games (e.g. Valorant) will run. Source: almost 3 years ago
Hyper-V needs to be enabled - link Note, Hyper-V is not available on Home Edition. Source: about 3 years ago
VMware Workstation Player is a good free option, there's also Hyper-V which is built into Windows. Source: about 3 years ago
Hyper-V is more a Windows feature https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v and can be uninstalled from optional features. Source: about 3 years ago
If you have Windows 10 Pro and higher versions Hyper-V can be turned on/off easily. More on this link. On Windows 10 Home Hyper-V cannot be installed but what you can take a look is through Control Panel and then clicking on Windows Features and look whether Virtual Machine Platform or Windows Hypervisor Platform are "checked/installed". Source: about 3 years ago
You can run a virtual machine, for example VirtualBoxor HyperV. You just have to install it, and then you can create a virtual machine to run linux over a remote desktop connection. Source: about 3 years ago
Then you can boot it with VirtualBox or install the Hyper-V role on Windows 10 Pro and try booting it that way: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v. Source: about 3 years ago
You can run Hyper-V on Windows 10 so long as you're running Pro, Enterprise, or Education. Source: about 3 years ago
Hyper-V is a part of non-Home Windows, not just Server. FWIW, Hyper-V Server itself is free to run, too. Source: about 3 years ago
According to Microsoft article, yes you are correct! Source: over 3 years ago
Hyper-v is build in kiddo. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v. Source: over 3 years ago
If you have Windows 10 Pro, you could use Microsoft's free built-in VM. You can read more on it on Microsoft's website. I used this to get a Windows 11 VM running quite easily since the software supports TPM. Source: over 3 years ago
Hey, You can enable HyperV following this link. Source: over 3 years ago
Hyper V - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v. Source: almost 4 years ago
Hyper-V - built into every version of Windows 10 Pro. Source: almost 4 years ago
Microsoft's documentation makes it abundantly clear that Hyper-V is not included in Windows 10 Home. Check it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v. Source: almost 4 years ago
I’m assuming here that has a lot to do with the 3080… NVIDIA are major assholes about developing drivers for Linux and making them open… seriously I don’t do business with NVIDIA because of their business practices. But if you actually want to give it a try, ask around in some of the Linux subreddits. My suggestion is to try Ubuntu 20.04 or PopOs 18.04. Ubuntu is by far the most stable, and easy to use distro.... Source: almost 4 years ago
Second, you can enable hyper-v, in windows by following Microsoft's instructions. Of course these instructions will be useless to you without the aforementioned nested virtualization support. - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v. Source: about 4 years ago
Read the docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v. Source: about 4 years ago
I didn't say win10 home doesn't support WSL2 though, I said Hyper-V isn't supported and it still isn't (Hyper-V is the term Microsoft uses when they describe their virtual platform. As you can see from this documentation, it's only available on pro, edu and enterprise versions of win10... Source: about 4 years ago
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