Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Creating Virtual Machines

The first thing anyone wants to do after creating a virtualization host is to create some virtual machines to test the technology. In Chapter 1, “Introducing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V,” you learned that a virtual machine is an abstraction of hardware, creating an independent simulated machine. This virtual machine has a configuration that mimics a hardware specification, providing controlled access to resources on the host server such as processor, memory, storage, and network. This virtual machine will have its own operating system, network presence, and security boundary, just like a physical machine such as a PC or a server. The subject of this section is the creation of these virtual machines. There are two ways ...