Mastering Microsoft® Virtualization

A.4. Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

Managing the Hyper-V parent

When Hyper-V is installed on a physical system, you interact with the physical system through the parent partition. Besides providing the host management environment, the parent partition is also used for setting up an environment in which the virtual machines will run.

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What are some of the components that the parent partition manages that affect all virtual machines running on that host and are unique to the virtual environment?

Solution

The parent partition has physical ownership of the hardware.

• Virtual hard disks—default folder in which to store virtual hard disks

• Virtual machines—default folder in which to store virtual machine configuration files. ...