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Sign in to saveHyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Hyper-V
- Software.screenshot
- Hyper-V Windows 10 guest.png
- Software.caption
- A Windows 10 Hyper-V guest virtual machine running inside a Windows 10 host
- Software.developer
- Microsoft
- Software.replaces
- Windows Virtual PCMicrosoft Virtual Server
- Software.operating system
- Windows ServerWindows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 (x64; Pro, Enterprise and Education)
- Software.genre
- Native hypervisor
- Software.license
- Proprietary
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27 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Hyper-V Server
- Architecture
- System requirements
- Supported guests
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Linux support
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Backward compatibility
- Limitations
- Audio
- Optical drives pass-through
- VT-x/AMD-V handling
- Performance degradation
- Client operating systems
- Feature changes per version
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2025
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.
==Overview== Codenamed Viridian and briefly known before its release as Windows Server Virtualization, a beta version was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008. The finalized version was released on June 26, 2008 and was delivered through Windows Update. Hyper-V has since been released with every version of Windows Server starting with version 2012, superseding Microsoft Virtual Server, and starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V has been the hardware virtualization component for personal computers, superseding Windows Virtual PC.