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:
- Open Hyper-V Manager from the Tools menu of Server Manager, or directly from the Administrative Tools folder.
- Right-click on the name of your Hyper-V server near the top-left portion of the screen, and choose New | Virtual Machine….
- This launches the New Virtual Machine Wizard,; go ahead...
