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Hyper-V

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.

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Developer
Microsoft
License
Proprietary
Operating system
Windows Server Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 (x64; Pro, Enterprise and Education)
Predecessor
Windows Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual Server
Release
June 28, 2008; 18 years ago (June 28, 2008)
Type
Native hypervisor

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Architecture

System requirements

Supported guests

Windows Server 2012

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Hyper-V

Nodes82
Edges81
Triples212
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1

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Hyper-V

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related to Hyper-V Server · 22
Hyper-V → Also, CLI, However, Hyper-V Server, In, It, Manager, Microsoft Management Consoles, October, OS, R2, Remote, Remote Desktop Connection, September, Server Core, System Center Virtual Machine, This, Windows, Windows Firewall, Windows PowerShell
related to Architecture · 20
Hyper-V → AMD, API, CPU, Depending, EPT, Guest Virtual Address, Guest Virtual Address-spaces, Instead, Intel, NPT, OSs, RVI, SynIC, Synthetic Interrupt Controller, The, The Virtualization Service Provider, There, Virtual Machine Management Service, VM, Windows
related to System requirements · 19
Hyper-V → AMD-V, At, CPU, Datacenter, Education, Either, Enterprise, GB, Hyper-V Server, In, Intel VT-x, NX, On Windows Server, Pro, Second Level Address Translation, Standard, The Hyper-V, Windows, Windows Server
related to Linux support · 17
Hyper-V → As, GPL, GPL-licensed, In February, Kernels, Linux, Linux Integration Components, Microsoft, On July, Paravirtualization, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Satori InputVSC, SP1/SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows, Xen-enabled Linux
related to Windows Server 2012 · 15
Hyper-V → CentOS, CPUs, Fibre ChannelOffloaded, Hyper-V Extensible Virtual SwitchNetwork, Linux, Machine Queue, Maximum, Minimum, R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Resource Pools, TB, VMQ, Windows, Windows Server
related to Windows Server 2016 · 11
Hyper-V → CPU, DDA, Discrete Device Assignment, Intel, Nested, OS, PCI Express, Shielded VMs, Virtual MachinesWindows, Windows, Windows Server
related to Windows Server 2019 · 11
Hyper-V → Failover Clustering, Linux, Machine Encrypted NetworksvSwitch Receive, Multi-Queue, Persistent Memory, Segment CoalescingDynamic Virtual Machine, Shielded Virtual Machines, Storage Spaces Direct, VMMQ, Windows, Windows Server
related to Backward compatibility · 10
Hyper-V → After, Hyper-V Integration Services, Installing, It, Microsoft Virtual Server, Older, OS, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Windows Virtual PC
related to Optical drives pass-through · 10
Hyper-V → As, CD/DVD-Video, CDs, Microsoft, Officially Hyper-V, Optical, Setting, Target, VM, VMs
related to overview · 10
Hyper-V → Codenamed Viridian, June, Microsoft, Microsoft Virtual Server, The, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server Virtualization, Windows Update, Windows Virtual PC

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windows server virtual guest 2008 linux microsoft support host virtualization operating 2012 r2 hypervisor supported machine partition machines systems enterprise

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Hyper-VDeveloperMicrosoft1.00infobox
Hyper-VLicenseProprietary1.00infobox
Hyper-VOperating systemWindows Server Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 (x64; Pro, Enterprise and Education)1.00infobox
Hyper-VPredecessorWindows Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual Server1.00infobox
Hyper-VReleaseJune 28, 2008; 18 years ago (June 28, 2008)1.00infobox
Hyper-VTypeNative hypervisor1.00infobox
Hyper-VWebsitelearn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/1.00infobox
Hyper-Vis anative hypervisor developed by Microsoft0.90text
Hyper-Vis aoptional component of Windows Server 2008 and later0.90text
Hyper-Vis anative hypervisor0.90text
Windows Server 2008instance ofprovide the ability to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving end users a full PC desktop experience.Guest operating systems with Enl…0.80text
later server versionsinstance ofprovide the ability to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving end users a full PC desktop experience.Guest operating systems with Enl…0.80text

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