You can see the new virtual machine right here.įrom there, you would have to power up that virtual machine and then install an operating system. Then you would click Next, then click Finish, and your virtual machine is created. I'm going to set this to install an operating system later. So, let’s just choose this option, click Browse, and then select some installation media, which I don't have any on this machine, so I'm going to go ahead and cancel out of this. Typically, that's the way that I set up virtual machines. So, as you can see, you can install an operating system later on, you can install an operating system from a network-based installation server, or you can install an operating system from a bootable image file. Then you would choose an operating system to install on the virtual machine. You would specify the virtual hard disk that you want to use, and click Next. I'm going to connect this virtual machine to the Default Switch.

Then you would click Next, and then choose how much memory you want to assign to the new virtual machine and click Next.įrom there, you would select your network adapter. Typically, you want to use a Generation 2 virtual machine unless you're installing a really old operating system. You would specify the virtual machine generation. From there, you would click Next, you would specify the name of the virtual machine that you want to create, and choose a storage location if you need to.

Incidentally, there's also a New option right here in the Actions pane on the right.Īt any rate, doing that is going to bring up the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Then, go to New and then choose Virtual Machine. Having said that, the normal way that you would create a virtual machine in Hyper-V is to simply right-click on the server. If you haven't already installed Hyper-V on your Windows 11 machine, you will need to do that before you can access the Hyper-V Manager. Now, Windows 11 doesn't have Hyper V installed by default.

For those who might not be familiar with the Hyper-V Manager, it's the default management tool for Hyper-V. So, as you can see, right now I've got the Hyper-V Manager up on screen. Standard Process for Linux VM Installation on Hyper-V In this video, I want to show you a really easy way to install a Linux virtual machine using Hyper-V. Related: How I Reclaimed Terabytes of Disk Space From Hyper-Vīrien Posey: Hi, I'm Brien Posey.

The following is a transcript of the video above, which walks through the process of installing a Linux virtual machine using Hyper-V.

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