Sharing physical resources is the primary purpose of virtualization. in Hyper-V we assign physical resources like; CPU, RAM, and disk space for every Virtual Machine at the time of configuration. But other resources like External disks, USB flash drives, and other plug play are configured when needed. In this article, I explain how to share host resources with the virtual machine in Hyper-V.

In Hyper-V, even if you want to copy a file from the USB flash drive to your virtual machine, you have to go a long way: You must create a virtual switch, connect your host and virtual machine to the same virtual switch, and give your virtual machine access to your USB flash drive. I will go through this process step by step in this article.

Create Virtual Switch in Hyper-V

When you create a Virtual Switch in Hyper-V, you will see three types of virtual switches. Each of these switch types has its advantages, so you have to choose the right type of Switch.

External Switch

External Switch provides a connection between virtual machines, hosts, and the physical network. It means that your virtual machine can connect to the internet as well. When you connect your virtual machine to an external switch, your virtual machine will be accessible by the host, physical network and the internet.

Internal Switch

You can use an Internal switch to separate your host network from your virtual network. Your virtual machines can communicate with each other and with the host, using an internal switch. But can not communicate with the physical network.

Private Switch

Virtual machines connected to a private switch can communicate with each other, but can not communicate with the host or physical network.

Now that you have understood virtual switch types follow the steps below to create a virtual switch.

1. Open Hyper-V Manager and click on Virtual Switch Manager.

2. Click on the New virtual network switch and select External, Internal or Private, then click on Create Virtual Switch. To share local resources with a virtual machine in Hyper-V, you must create an external switch or internal Switch because just external and internal switches provide the connection with the host. A Private Switch doesn’t provide the connection between virtual machines and the host machine.

3. Name your virtual Switch; you can see it as you type the name. Choose the Internal network connection type for your virtual Switch, then press OK.

Now that you have created a virtual switch make sure that it has been created appropriately by clicking on Virtual Switch Manager in Hyper-V Manager. You can change your switch type easily from Virtual Switch Manager. Now let’s connect the virtual machine to the virtual Switch.

Check out if you want to know how to create a virtual switch by using Windows PowerShell.

Connect Virtual Machine to Virtual Switch

Both the host and the virtual machine must be connected to the same virtual Switch in order to share your host resources with the virtual machine. When you create an external or internal switch in Hyper-V, your host connects automatically to that Switch, but your virtual machine doesn’t. You have to connect your virtual machine to the virtual switch manually. I explain how to connect the virtual machine to the virtual switch step by step.

1. Open Hyper-V Manager, right-click on the name of your virtual machine and click on Settings. Or, if your virtual machine is running, maximize your virtual machine window and click on the File and click on settings.

2. Click on Add Hardware, select Network Adapter and click on Add.

3. Select the virtual Switch from the list and click OK. You can also remove any virtual switch that is not needed by selecting that virtual Switch and clicking on Remove.

4. Before you go to share local resources in Hyper-V, make sure that your host is connected to your virtual Switch. Open Control Panel, click on Network and Internet, and then click on Network and Sharing Center.

When creating a virtual switch, make sure it is the right type of Switch that you need. If you want to connect your virtual machine to the internet, create an external switch, and if you’re going to separate your virtual network from the host network, then create a Private Switch.

Configure to Share Host’s Local Resources With Virtual Machine

You can share; printers, clipboards, external hard disks, internal disk drives, USB flash drives, and other plug and play devices from the Local Resources. In Hyper-V, if you want to copy a file into your virtual machine, it doesn’t provide you with the copy and paste option from the host to the virtual machine, so you have to share it via file-sharing or share the disk or USB itself. Follow the steps below to configure resource sharing.

1. Right-click on the Virtual Machine name and click on Connect. The following screen appears, then click on Show Options.

2. Click on Local resources to see local devices, check the devices you want to share with the virtual machine, and then click on Connect. If the resource you want to share is not in the list, click on More.

3. The following screen appears, select your resource from that list and click OK. I want to share Local drive C and a USB Pendrive which is plugged into my computer.

4. After your virtual machine is connected, log in with a username and password. Check the File Explorer, drive and devices you shared before will appear under Redirected drives and folders.

Sharing local resources look complicated, but it gets easier when you understand the process well. If you create the correct type of switch, connect your host and virtual machine to the virtual switch properly, so you will not find issues to share local resources with the virtual machine in Hyper-V.

Check out this article to know more about the installation of Hyper-V on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.

Check out this article if you want to know How To Connect Hyper-V Machines To Internet?

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To restore to the previous configuration, you have to create virtual machine checkpoints in Hyper-V. You often make some changes to your virtual machine, but that change doesn’t go well, and you want to restore it to the previous configuration.

Checkpoint Types

We have two types of checkpoints in Hyper-V: standard checkpoints and production checkpoints. The production checkpoint is more stable than the standard checkpoint.

Standard Checkpoints: capture the virtual machine and everything running in virtual machine memory. Formerly it was known as snapshots before windows 10.

Production Checkpoint: saves the virtual machine state but does not save the information about the running application.

Configure Checkpoints in Hyper-V

Follow the steps below to create virtual machine checkpoints in Hyper-V

1. Right-click on the virtual machine name and click on Checkpoint, or select your virtual machine and click on Checkpoint at the right column in Hyper-V Manager. When you click on Checkpoint by default, it creates a standard checkpoint, but you can configure it to create a production checkpoint.

To configure checkpoint settings, open Hyper-V Manager, click on Action, then settings. The screen below appears. Click on Checkpoints in the left menu, check Enable checkpoints and click on Production checkpoints.

Once your checkpoint is created, select your checkpoint and click on Apply.

This screen appears. I suggest clicking on Create Checkpoint and Apply because it creates a checkpoint on the current state of your virtual machines and then applies the previous checkpoint.

A checkpoint is a valuable tool in Hyper-V. It helps try the different applications, settings, and configurations without damaging your machine.

To know more about checkpoints, click here.

You may also like How to connect the virtual machine to the internet?

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Hyper-V is a Microsoft virtualization software, which allows you to run and manage multiple virtual machines on one computer. The number of Virtual Machines that you can create on Hyper-V depends on your hardware resources. A Virtual Machine is a software version of a computer that you can dedicate hardware resources to it, install an operating system on it, and do networking. You can use Hyper-V on both desktop operating systems and server operating systems. In this article, I explained the installation of Hyper-V on Windows 11, and then I explained the installation of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022. Read more about Hyper-V

Enable Hyper-V on Windows 11

Hyper-V is already available on Windows 10 and Windows 11, you just need to enable it. To enable it, search for “Turn Windows features on or off” in the Start Menu and click to open it. Or enter the command “optionalfeatures.exe” in the run and press OK.

Once you run that command the following screen appears. Check Hyper-V, make sure the Hyper-V Management Tools and Hyper-V Platform are checked as well, and then click OK.

You will see the screen below if your configuration is successful. Restart your computer to apply the changes.

After you restart your computer, you can configure your Hyper-V manager and create Virtual Machines.

Check this article for Hyper-V configuration.

Before going to explain how to add the Hyper-V role on Windows Server, it is good to know about Nested Virtualization.

Nested Virtualization

Nested Virtualization is a technology that makes you capable of installing Hyper-V on a virtual machine that is already running on Hyper-V. It is mostly used in the test environment, where you need multiple hosts or you want to create a Virtual Machine inside another Virtual Machine.

If you want to add the Hyper-V role on Windows Server that is running on a virtual machine, you need to enable Nested Virtualization. To enable Nested Virtualization, turn off the virtual machines, and run the following command in the PowerShell on the host operating system. PowerShell should be run as administrator.

Set-VMProcessor -VMName [Virtual Machine Name] -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

Now, turn on your Virtual Machine and follow the steps below to add the Hyper-V role on the windows server.

Add Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2022

1. Open Server Manager, click on Dashboard and click on Add roles and features.

2. Click Next, choose the Installation Type Role-based or feature-based installation, and click next.

3. Select your server pool and click next.

4. On the Server Role, check the Hyper-V then click Next.

5. Leave everything to default, and continue clicking next until you get to the confirmation window. You can configure them later according to your need. Check the “Restart the destination server automatically if required” if you want your computer to restart automatically, then click install.

You will see the following screen, after the successful installation of Hyper-V on Windows Server.

Restart your machine, when your machine is loaded up back, go to Tools and click on Hyper-V Manager.

Now you can configure Hyper-V Manager, and create Virtual Machines and operating systems on the Virtual Machines.

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The error of “User account does not have permission to open attachment” in Hyper-V Server can occur when you try to use an ISO located on a network drive as a boot drive for a VM. A workaround is to copy the ISOs on the host machine directly but that’s inconvenient and tedious. Follow these steps to fix the permissions and allow Hyper-V to use images through SMB.

User Account Does Not Have Permission

We can fix the user account that does not have permission to open an attachment in Hyper-v with two stages. The first one granting the Hyper-V server access to the network shared folder and the second stage enabling CIFS delegation on the Hyper-V machine.

To fix this issue you must have an AD domain account to grant the Hyper-V host access to the network share.

1. Grant the Hyper-V Machine Access to the Network Shared File.

1. Right-click the network shared folder and open the properties then click Edit under the Security tab.
2. Click Add in the new window then click on Object Types and tick the checkbox next to Computers and then press OK to apply the changes.

3. Now, type the name of the Hyper-V machine which you want to authorize on the shared folder and then press Check Names to validate. After validating the name just click the OK button to add it.

Note: If you do not tick the checkbox of Computers on Object Types the system will not find your Hyper-V machine. Make sure you’ve ticked the Computer checkbox and also your machine should be joined to the domain.

4. Click OK to close all the opened file sharing permissions windows to complete the first stage successfully.

2. Enable CIFS Delegation on the Hyper-V Machine

The CIFS delegation gives service administrators the ability to specify and enforce application trust boundaries by limiting the scope where application services can act on a user’s behalf. Service administrators can configure which front-end service accounts can delegate to their back-end services.

On your AD domain controller complete the following steps.

1. Open the Server Manager then click Active Directory Users and Computers from Tools menu. Or type the dsa.msc on Windows Run to open Active Directory Users and Computers only using shortcut.
2. Expand domain, and then expand the Computers folder.
3. In the right pane, right-click the Hyper-V Machine name, and then click Properties.
4. On the Delegation tab, select Trust this computer for delegation to specified services only and Use any authentication protocol.
5. Click Add to open the Add Services dialog window.

6. Select the Users or Computers on Add Services window, and type the computer name where the network shared folder is located then validate it by clicking on Check Name and click OK.

7. Select the CIFS service for the file-sharing server and click OK to enable CIFS delegation on the Hyper-V Server.

8. Finally, click OK to close all opened windows. Now you can install operating systems on your Hyper-V server virtual machines via network shared files.

Perfect, we’ve done!

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To create a virtual machine in Hyper-V, you need Hyper-V installed on your computer. For installing Hyper-V or enabling Hyper-V on Windows 10, read the below article. After essential configuration of Hyper-v on Windows 10, try to create a virtual machine using this step by step guide.

• Enable and Configure Hyper-V on Windows 10.

In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a computer system. The virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination.

There are different kinds of virtual machines:

• System virtual machines (also termed full virtualization VMs) provide a substitute for a real computer. They provide the functionality needed to execute entire operating systems. A hypervisor uses native execution to share and manage hardware, allowing for multiple environments which are isolated from one another, yet exist on the same physical machine. Modern hypervisors use hardware-assisted virtualization, virtualization-specific hardware, primarily from the host CPUs.
• Process virtual machines are designed to execute computer programs in a platform-independent environment.

Some virtual machines, such as QEMU, are also designed to emulate different architectures and allow execution of software applications and operating systems written for another CPU or architecture. Operating-system-level virtualization allows the resources of a computer to be partitioned via the kernel’s support for multiple isolated user-space instances, which are usually called containers and may look and feel like real machines to the end-users.

Create Virtual Machine in Hyper-V on Windows 10

Creating a virtual machine on Hyper-V is easy, and this tutorial is just a short lab manual guide. You learn how to create a virtual machine in Hyper-V on Windows 10.

Before using Hyper-V on Windows 10 for server virtualization, you need to check your system requirement. It’s terrible that you can not install  Hyper-V role on Windows 10 Home edition.

Hyper-V System Requirements on Windows 10: 

• Windows 10 Enterprise, Professional, or Education
• 64-bit Processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).
• CPU support for VM Monitor Mode Extension (VT-c on Intel CPU’s).
• Minimum of 4 GB memory.

You can not install the Hyper-V role on Windows 10 Home. You must upgrade from Windows 10 Home edition to Windows 10 Professional for creating a Hyper-v virtualized environment.

But for creating a virtualized network environment for practising server virtualization, install VirtualBox or VMware on Windows 10 Home edition. Read the article about creating virtual machine on VMware on Windows 10.

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You can run your workloads on Hyper-V, then easily migrate them from on-premises to a Windows Server virtual machine in the cloud. Deploy applications on multiple operating systems with best-in-class support for Linux on Hyper-V. So, you have a great option in Windows 10 make a virtualization lab for practising virtualization. Are you ready to enable and configure Hyper-V on your Windows 10 for practising in a virtualized environment?

What is Hyper-V in Windows 10?

The Microsoft Hyper-V, formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. Starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V superseded Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.

Microsoft Hyper-V was first released alongside Windows Server 2008 and has been available without charge for all the Windows Server and some client operating systems since. Now you can use Hyper-V on Windows 10 that make client operating systems and server virtualization easy. Fortunately, the latest version of Hyper-V on Windows 10 support Linux operating systems as well. Now you can create an open network environment with Windows and Linux.

Enable and Configure Hyper-V

Hyper-v is not a downloadable and installable virtualization software like VMware or VirtualBox. It is a Windows 10 built-in feature that can be easily enabled and disabled.

Hyper-V System Requirements on Windows 10: 

• Windows 10 Enterprise, Professional, or Education
• 64-bit Processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).
• CPU support for VM Monitor Mode Extension (VT-c on Intel CPU’s).
• Minimum of 4 GB memory.

The Hyper-V role cannot be installed on Windows 10 Home. You must upgrade from Windows 10 Home edition to Windows 10 Professional for creating a Hyper-v virtualized environment. For more information and troubleshooting, see Windows 10 Hyper-V System Requirements.

To install Hyper-V on Windows 10:

1. Open Windows Features.
2. Enable Hyper-V option.
3. Restart your computer.

1. Press Windows+R keys on the keyboard to open Windows Run. And type “optionalfeatures” and press enter to open Windows Features. Then select Hyper-V from Windows features and click OK to enable Hyper-v on Windows 10.

After enabling Hyper-v on Windows 10, it prompts to restart your computer for applying the Windows changes. Just save your works and click Restart now to restart your PC.

That was using GUI for installing and configuring Hyper-V on Windows 10. But Hyper-V has some PowerShell commands as well. Let’s test how to enable Hyper-V using PowerShell on Windows 10 and Windows Server?

Enable Hyper-V Using PowerShell:

Open a PowerShell console as Administrator and run the following command:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

No matter, you have installed Hyper-V using PowerShell command or GUI, you must restart your computer for applying changes.

Enable Hyper-V with DISM command in Command Prompt

This is another command-line option to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10. The Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool (DISM) helps configure Windows and Windows images. Among its many applications, DISM can enable Windows features while the operating system is running.

To enable the Hyper-V role using DISM:

1. Open up a PowerShell or CMD session as Administrator.
2. Type the following command.

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /All /FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V

OK.

When you restart your computer, just press type “Hyper-v” on Windows search to find the Hyper-V virtualization software. Yes, check the below screenshot shows the Hyper-V on my computer.

That’s good, your Hyper-v has been enabled and it is ready for server virtualization on Windows 10. The next step is configuring Hyper-v on Windows 10 for server virtualization or practising for the cloud computing network.

Essential Hyper-V Configuration on Windows 10

The below article focuses to configure Hyper-V essential setting for creating a virtualized environment on Windows 10.

• The essential Hyper-V Configuration for Server virtualization on Windows 10.

Good luck.

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In Hyper-v you can connect Hyper-v machines to Internet with two methods that I’m going to explain all step by step. This article is for those, who know the basic of Server Virtualization with Hyper-v. If you don’t know about Hyper-v Virtualization software, I recommend you to read the previews articles of Hyper-V installation and configuration posts.

• Install Hyper-V: Hyper-v Beginner: A Practical Guide to Virtualization. This post shows you how to install Hyper-v on Windows client 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016.
• Configure the necessary Hyper-V settings: Essential Hyper-V Configuration. Explain the configuration of Hyper-v for beginner to create a virtualization testing Lab.

Hyper-v Virtual Switches

The virtual switch is a logical switch which connects virtual machines. Currently, Hyper-v has three different types of virtual switch which I told the preview article also.

• External: Switch is used to connect the virtual machines to external network and Internet. The virtual machines (Guest) and Host will be on the same network.
• Internal: Switch is used to create network connection between guest machines and the host.
• Private: The private switch is used to create network connection between virtual machines only.

Connect Hyper-v Machines to Internet Using External vSwitch

1. Create an external virtual switch in Hyper-v and then link it to the physical host network card. To create a virtual switch, open Hyper-v Manager then clicks Action and click Virtual Switches Manager.

2. From Virtual Switch Manager, select External virtual switch and click Create Virtual Switch.

3. Type a name for this virtual switch and select the exact physical network card which currently connects your host to the internet then click OK to apply the changes.

4. Now, to connect a virtual machine to the internet just select this external virtual switch as network adapter of the virtual machine.  Let’s test it on a Windows 10 Pro.

5. Run a virtual machine then click File and click Settings then select Network Adapter from Virtual Machine Settings. From right side select the external virtual switch as the virtual switch to connect hyper-v machines to internet.

The virtual machine is successfully connected to the internet through the external virtual switch.

Connect Hyper-v Machines to Internet Using ICS

The second method is using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). ICS is another best practice to connect Hyper-v Machines to the internet. But in this method, you must share the original internet connection for virtual machines. So with ICS, you can connect your all private network machines to the internet. Let’s do it.

The process is the same as creating an external virtual switch. Open the Virtual Switch Manager and create a new one. Only select Internal instead of external the click OK to create the Internal virtual switch.

Enable ICS to Host Machine

1. Type “ncpa.cpl” to Windows Run and press enter to go to network connections of your host machine. Then right-click the Ethernet connection which is connected to the internet then click Properties.

2. On the Ethernet Properties page click Sharing tab then tick the checkbox of Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection then click OK to apply the changes.

3. Now for your virtual machines, you should choose Internal vSwitch as a virtual switch to connect them to the internet.

Yes, it works fine.

In the environment where your internet connection is a Wi-Fi connection, you can use the second method ICS to connect Hyper-v machines to the internet.

Connect Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Internet – Video

OK, that’s all. Hope you enjoy this Virtualization related article to Hyper-v beginner guide.  If you have any questions, please ask us in the comment box. We will help you fix the problems fast and easy.

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The Linux Ubuntu Desktop comes with everything you need to run as client desktop. Install Ubuntu desktop in your organisation, school, home or enterprise network. All the essential applications, like an office suite, browsers, email and media apps come pre-installed, and thousands more games and applications are available in the Ubuntu software centre.

We are going to install Ubuntu desktop on Hyper-v using Windows 10. It is the best practice to test or using multiple operating systems on a computer. You need to Download Ubuntu Desktop image from Ubuntu website.

Before you Begin:

Before you start to install Ubuntu desktop on Hyper-v, you should know the basic knowledge of Hyper-v. If you are new with Hyper-v, read the following articles.

• Hyper-v Beginner: A Practical Guide to Virtualization: Introduction and Installation of Hyper-v
• Essential Hyper-V Configuration: Creating Virtual Machine and Hyper-v network configuration.
• How to Connect Hyper-v Machines to Internet?

Install Ubuntu Desktop on Hyper-v

Before installing Ubuntu, Install Hyper-v feature on your Windows 10 or Windows Server. Then create a new virtual machine in Hyper-v and start the installation of Ubuntu desktop on Hyper-v virtual machine.

1. From the Hyper-v Manager console run the Ubuntu Linux virtual machine and click the Start to run the virtual machine.

2. On the welcome page select your language and click Install Ubuntu button. The chosen language is going to be your default operating system language. So try to choose the correct language.

3. Click Continue on the preparing to install Ubuntu desktop. Don’t pick the Install this third-party software if they are not required.

4. Select Erase disk and install Ubuntu and click Install Now to begin the installation.

Note: this option will remove the entire disk and create a new partition in order to install the operating system. So be careful when you want to install a dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Linux installation.

If you need to create more partitions, then choose something else and continue to create more partitions.

5. When you click the Install now button, it prompts that do you write the changes to disk? Click Continue to accept and apply the partition changes.

6. When ask you where are you? Just select your location and click Continue.

7. Choose the language and keyboard layout and click Continue. This language will be the standard language for the keyboard. You can change the keyboard language later also.

8. To create a user account, type your name, computer name, username and password then click Continue to begin the installation.

9. Do nothing, let the Ubuntu installation process will finish successfully. When the installation has completed, then click Restart Now to restart the virtual machine.

10. Now on the login page type the password and login to Ubuntu desktop virtual machine.

Finally, welcome to the Linux Ubuntu desktop as Hyper-v virtual machine in Windows 10.

OK, that’s all about installing Linux Ubuntu Desktop on Hyper-v in Windows 10. If you have any question or suggestion about website, articles, services, please comment us.

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