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Step-By-Step: Enabling Hyper-V for use on Windows 10

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AnthonyBartolo
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Oct 09, 2018
Virtualization provides a plethora of solutions from making the most of an organization’s hardware investment to running specific applications in other OS offerings. Windows 8 was the first Windows c...
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MurrayWallForte
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Oct 11, 2018

Of course you can always do it via script...  you will have to add the bios code specific to your hardware to enable virtualization  I have used this code to create VM's on machines previously

Setup the Disk to allow the hypervisor

BCDEDIT /Set `{current`} hypervisorlaunchtype auto

Install the Module

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

 

Import-module Hyper-v

Create a Switch
New-VMSwitch -Name VMSwitch -NetAdapterName Ethernet

Create a new VM

New-VM -Name "Windows 10 Image"  -newVHDPath c:\VM\W10x64.vhdx -NewVHDSizeBytes 50gb -MemoryStartupBytes 3084mb

You can Add new adapters
get-vm "Windows 10 Image"|Add-VMNetworkAdapter -islegacy $true -Name Bootable

You can change adapters

get-vm "Windows 10 Image"|Get-VMNetworkAdapter -name "Bootable"|Connect-VMNetworkAdapter -Switchname VMSwitch

Change the Integration Service Options

Enable-VMIntegrationService -VMName "Windows 10 Image -Name "Guest Service Interface"

Change the startup order
Set-VMBios "Windows 10 Image" -StartupOrder @("IDE","LegacyNetworkAdapter","CD","Floppy")

Remove an adapter
get-vm "Windows 10 Image"|Remove-VMNetworkAdapter -name "Network Adapter"

Start up a VM
start-vm "Windows 10 Image"

Get the Mac Address of a VM
(get-vm "Windows 10 Image"|Get-VMNetworkAdapter).macaddress