Building your first virtual machine

If you haven't worked within Hyper-V Manager before, you are probably chomping at the bit to get your first virtual machine created and running! There are a number of options that you must declare during the virtual machine creation process. Let's take a few minutes and walk through it together so you understand what those options mean and what benefits they can bring to the table.

Getting ready

We are using a Windows Server 2016 with the Hyper-V role and management tools installed. That is the only requirement for this recipe.

How to do it…

Let's walk through the steps to create a brand new virtual machine and install an operating system on that VM:

  1. Open Hyper-V Manager from the Tools menu of Server Manager, or ...

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