How to Use Hyper-V

Right click on the Windows button and select ‘Programs and Features’. 

Select Turn Windows Features on or off. 

Select Hyper-V and click OK. 

Open a PowerShell console as Administrator. 

Run the following command: 

Open up a PowerShell or CMD session as Administrator. 

Type the following command: 

Open up Hyper-V Manager. 

Right Click on the name of the Hyper-V host and select Virtual Switch Manager. 

Under ‘Virtual Switches’ select new virtual network switch. 

Under ‘Create virtual switch’ select External. 

Select the Create Virtual Switch button. 

Under ‘Virtual Switch Properties’ give the new switch a name such as External VM Switch. 

Under ‘Connection Type’ ensure that External Network has been selected. 

Select the physical network card that to be paired with the new virtual switch, this is the network card that is physically connected to the network. 

Select Apply to create the virtual switch. At this point you will most likely see the following message, click Yes to continue. 

Select OK to close the Virtual Switch Manager Window. 

Use Get-NetAdapter to return a list of network adapters connected to the Windows 10 system. 

PS C:\> Get-NetAdapter Name InterfaceDescription ifIndex Status MacAddress LinkSpeed ---- -------------------- ------- ------ ---------- --------- Ethernet 2 Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Cont... 5 Up BC-30-5B-A8-C1-7F 1 Gbps Ethernet Intel(R) PRO/100 M Desktop Adapter 3 Up 00-0E-0C-A8-DC-31 10 Mbps  

Select the network adapter to use with the Hyper-V switch and place an instance in a variable named $net. 

$net = Get-NetAdapter -Name 'Ethernet'  

Execute the following command to create the new Hyper-V virtual switch. 

New-VMSwitch -Name "External VM Switch" -AllowManagementOS $True -NetAdapterName $net.Name  

In Hyper-V Manager click Action > New > Virtual Machine. 

Review the ‘Before You Begin’ content and click Next. 

Give the Virtual Machine a name. Note, this is the name of the Virtual Machine and not the computer name given to the system once the operating system has been deployed. 

Chose a location where the virtual machine files will be stored such as c:\virtualmachine. You can also accept the default location. Click Next when done. 

Select a generation for the machine and click Next. 

Generation 2 virtual machines were introduced with Windows Server 2012 R2 and provide a simplified virtual hardware model and some additional functionality. You can only install a 64-bit operating system on a generation 2 virtual machine. For more information on Generation 2 virtual machines see the Generation 2 Virtual Machine Overview. 

Select 2048 for the Startup Memory value and leave Use Dynamic Memory, selected. Click the Next button. 

Memory is shared between a Hyper-V host and the virtual machine running on the host. The number of virtual machine’s that can run on a single host is in part dependent on available memory. A virtual machine can also be configured to use Dynamic Memory. When enabled, dynamic memory reclaims unused memory from the running virtual machine. This allows more virtual machines to run on the host. For more information on Dynamic Memory, see the Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Overview. 

On the Configure Networking wizard, select a virtual switch for the virtual machine and click Next. For more information, see Create a Virtual Switch. 

Give the virtual hard drive a name, select a location or keep the default, and finally specify a size. Click Next when ready. 

A virtual hard drive provides storage for a virtual machine similar to a physical hard drive. A virtual hard drive is required so that you can install an operating system on the virtual machine. 

On the Installation Options wizard, select Install an operating system from a bootable image file and then select an operating system .iso file. Click Next once completed. 

When creating a virtual machine, you can configure some operating system installation options. The three options available are: 

Review the virtual machine details and click Finish to complete the virtual machine creation. 

Open up the PowerShell ISE as Administrator. 

Run the following script. This script 

# Set VM Name, Switch Name, and Installation Media Path. $VMName = 'TESTVM' $Switch = 'External VM Switch' $InstallMedia = 'C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\en_windows_10_enterprise_x64_dvd_6851151.iso' # Create New Virtual Machine New-VM -Name $VMName -MemoryStartupBytes 2147483648 -Generation 2 -NewVHDPath "D:\Virtual Machines\$VMName\$VMName.vhdx" -NewVHDSizeBytes 53687091200 -Path "D:\Virtual Machines\$VMName" -SwitchName $Switch # Add DVD Drive to Virtual Machine Add-VMScsiController -VMName $VMName Add-VMDvdDrive -VMName $VMName -ControllerNumber 1 -ControllerLocation 0 -Path $InstallMedia # Mount Installation Media $DVDDrive = Get-VMDvdDrive -VMName $VMName # Configure Virtual Machine to Boot from DVD Set-VMFirmware -VMName $VMName -FirstBootDevice $DVDDrive  

In Hyper-V Manager, double-click on the virtual machine. This launches the VMConnect tool. 

In VMConnect, click on the green Start button. This is like pressing the power button on a physical computer. You may be prompted to ‘Press any key to boot from CD or DVD’, go ahead and do so. 

The virtual machine boots into setup and you can walk through the installation like you would on a physical computer. 

Click on the Windows start button, type PowerShell. 

Run the following command to display a searchable list of PowerShell commands available with the Hyper-V PowerShell Module. 

get-command –module hyper-v | out-gridview  

You get something like this: 

To learn more about a particular PowerShell command use get-help. For instance running the following command returns information about the get-vm Hyper-V command. 

get-help get-vm  

The output shows you how to structure the command, what the required and optional parameters are, and the aliases that you can use. 

In PowerShell, run the following command: 

get-vm  

This displays something like this: 

To return a list of only powered on virtual machines add a filter to the get-vm command. A filter can be added by using the where-object command. For more information on filtering see the Using the Where-Object documentation. 

get-vm | where {$_.State –eq ‘Running’}  

To list all virtual machines in a powered off state, run the following command. This command is a copy of the command from step 2 with the filter changed from ‘Running’ to ‘Off’. 

get-vm | where {$_.State –eq ‘Off’}  

To start a particular virtual machine, run the following command with name of the virtual machine: 

Start-vm –Name <virtual machine name>  

To start all currently powered off virtual machines, get a list of those machines and pipe the list to the 'start-vm' command: 

get-vm | where {$_.State –eq ‘Off’} | start-vm  

To shut down all running virtual machines, run this: 

get-vm | where {$_.State –eq ‘Running’} | stop-vm  

To open the PowerShell ISE click on start, type PowerShell ISE. 

Run the following code to create a virtual machine. See the New-VM documentation for detailed information on the New-VM command. 

$VMName = "VMNAME" $VM = @{ Name = $VMName MemoryStartupBytes = 2147483648 Generation = 2 NewVHDPath = "C:\Virtual Machines\$VMName\$VMName.vhdx" NewVHDSizeBytes = 53687091200 BootDevice = "VHD" Path = "C:\Virtual Machines\$VMName " SwitchName = (get-vmswitch).Name[0] } New-VM @VM