Pro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019: Practical Guidance and Hands-On Labs

© Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway 2018

Andy Syrewicze and Richard SiddawayPro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4116-5_3

3. Creating Your First Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Andy Syrewicze¹  and Richard Siddaway²

(1)

Jenison, MI, USA

(2)

Baston, Lincolnshire, UK

 

You’ve had introductions to Hyper-V’s architecture, and you’ve learned how to configure the core Hyper-V host settings. In this chapter, you’ll be setting up a new virtual machine (VM), which will contain an operating system (OS) and its own virtual hardware. Remember that a VM is its own isolated entity that functions much the same as a physical server. As you complete the exercises in this chapter, you’ll find that working with a VM is no different than interacting with a ...