Hello everyone, and welcome again
to the next chapter of using Client Hyper V. Today, we will learn about
creating a new virtual machine inside Client Hyper V. In our previous video, we
talked about installing Client Hyper V on your Windows PC, but some of users
may be wondering, what to do next in Client Hyper V, as there are no such
options to create new virtual machines.
If this is also a case with you, then
open Turn On or Off Windows Features, expand Hyper V, and make sure Hyper V
Platform option is also checked. If it is not already then install this option
as well, and restart your PC. This is the main service that Client Hyper V
usage to create and manage virtual machines.
Once you are back into Client
Hyper V Manager after restarting your PC, you may see new options in the right
side pane. So, let’s get started creating a new virtual machine.
To create a new virtual machine,
click New from the Action menu, and then click Virtual Machine. New Virtual
Machine wizard will open that will help you to create new virtual machine. As
you can see, in the very beginning of the wizard there is a finish button,
which you can use to create a new virtual machine with default settings.
However, it is not recommended, as we will configure many settings that are require
to understand the whole concept of creating virtual machines. Click next, and
you will be presented with Name and Location dialog box. Type a new name for
your virtual machine. The default storage location of your virtual machine is
on C drive, but you can make a check mark on “Store the virtual machine on a
different location”, and then can specify a new location to store your virtual
machine.
In the next dialog box, we need
to configure the Generation of the virtual machine. The default setting is Generation
1. As we are beginning with the virtualization technology, we will go with
Generation 1, but do remember that generation type cannot be changed later.
Then we need to allocate the
memory usage to our virtual machine. Memory allocation depends on the operating
system that you intend to install on your virtual machine, and later how you
will use that virtual machine. As I am planning to install Windows XP, 512 Mega
Bytes of RAM will be sufficient. If you are not sure that how much memory to
allocate, then make a check mark on “Use Dynamic Memory for this virtual
machine”.
The next option is to configure
networking. Choose the default option, as will cover this topic in detail in
our next videos on Hyper V.
Next is creating a new Virtual
Hard Disk, which will store the entire data of your Virtual Machine including
the operating system. Make sure of to provide sufficient disk space according
to the operating system you are going to install, and the software and
utilities that you are going to use on the Guest Operating systems.
The next and very important is
about configuring the installation option. Here you have 4 choices. Either you
can install the operating system later, or you can choose to install it from CD
/ DVD ROM, or from an ISO image file. You can also boot your virtual machine
from a bootable floppy disk, if you have created one earlier. The last
installation option is, “install an operating system from a network based
installation server”, which is disabled by default, as we have not configured
or network in previous step. As for now, I am going to install the operating
system from an ISO image, so I will choose the second option, and will browse
for the location of ISO image. In the end, you have a complete summary of your
Virtual Machine configuration. Click Finish to save the changes. Now, to run
your virtual machine, right-click on your Virtual Machine name, and click
Start, or you may choose the options from the right side pane. Once your
virtual machine is start and running, you will see a thumbnail view below. Now,
right-click again on the name, and choose connect, or just double-click the
virtual machine name, to see a larger view and work inside your machine.
As you can see the Windows setup
has been started, and now you can proceed with the installation of your guest
operating system inside Virtual Machine. Keep in mind that your guest operating
system will be using the same hardware configuration that you have define while
creating the virtual machine. For instance, the total unallocated space on
virtual hard drive is the same that I had mentioned while creating the machine.
Once the installation is
complete, you can work inside the guest operating system, as you are working on
a physical computer.
Do remember that, you have to shut
down your guest operating system, or turn off the virtual machine to free up
system resources. If you just close the virtual machine box or, exit through
file menu, the machine will still be running in the background, and will
continue to use system resources. So, to turn it off, either Shut Down the
operating system, or click the Action menu, and then click Turn Off.
In our next videos, we will be
covering many more advance features of Windows 8.1, and you may require to run
several tasks that may cause major changes to your system. So, we will advise
the learner and enthusiast to work inside virtual machines, so your host
operating system may remain intact.
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