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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Every time a new Windows Server launched, a free online virtual lab for practice will come as well. Microsoft provides Windows server 2016 free online virtual labs for testing Windows server 2016 new features. These free virtual labs are pretty enough to test Windows server features before purchasing. The customers get excited to try the new features. But while some folks love getting their hands dirty setting up new servers, storage, cables, etc., not everyone has a lot of time to do this.  With the new virtual labs for Windows Server 2016, Microsoft made it a lot quicker and easier for you to get your hands dirty on the fun part!

Windows Server 2016 Free Online Virtual Labs

You can register and receive an email for accessing the Windows server 2016 free online virtual labs. Access each of these individual labs in a private, sandbox environment, including a step-by-step guide and support information.

Related articles:

1. Free Virtual Labs Windows Server 2012 R2.
2. MCSA Lab Manual Articles.

Get started by selecting your first virtual lab, then you’ll be prompted to sign in with your Microsoft account. Each lab takes approximately one hour to complete. There is no limit to the number of times you can use these labs.

Check out each of these 60-minute experiences:

• Implementing Breach Resistance Security in Windows Server 2016
• Shielded Virtual Machines
• Building a Storage Infrastructure on Windows Server 2016
• Installing and Managing Nano Server
• Exploring Virtualization on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016
• Failover Clustering and Rolling Cluster Upgrades
• Implementing a Software Defined Network with Windows Server 2016

Try to find out the free online Virtual labs for practicing Windows server 2016. Sign in with your Microsoft account, and you can access any of the individual labs in a private, sandboxed environment. It all adds up to about six hours of content, and you can come back later if you need to.

Give these new virtual labs a try. And when you are ready to dig even deeper and evaluate the full product, you can download the Windows Server 2016 evaluation media.

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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

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