Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Manually Launching a Guest Session

Another option for guest session startup is to not have a guest session automatically start after a physical server boots up. This is typically the preferred option if a guest session will be part of a demonstration or test server where the administrator of the system wants to control which guest sessions are automatically launched, and which sessions need to be manually launched. It would not be convenient to have a series of demo or test sessions automatically boot up every time the system is booted. The administrator of the system would typically want to choose to start these guest sessions.

To set the startup action to manually launch a guest session, follow these steps:

1. From the Hyper-V Manager console, ...