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The next version of Windows Server is at an early stage of development, but some of the new functionality for orchestrating virtualised compute, storage and networking resources ...
Did you know that Windows 8.1 Professional and Enterprise has built-in virtualization capabilities? Here's how to run multiple operating systems on a single PC.
Many Windows users aren't aware of it, but a powerful virtualization tool is built into every copy of Microsoft Windows 8.x Pro and Windows 8.x Enterprise, Client Hyper-V.
This is the very same Type-1 hypervisor that runs virtualized enterprise workloads and comes with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. The virtual machines you create on your desktop with Client Hyper-V are fully compatible with those server systems as well.
If you're a software developer and need to do testing, or simply want additional operating system(s) running on your computer, such as Linux, Hyper-V can be a great feature to have enabled on your PC.
Client Hyper-V has remarkably few limitations compared to its Server sibling. They are:
If you need to be able to do these, you might want to consider the free Hyper-V Server product, or Windows Server 2012 R2.
For additional information on the full feature set of Hyper-V, click here.
Client Hyper-V is only available in the following versions of Windows:
For this demonstration though, we'll concentrate on the Windows 8.1 versions, as it is a free upgrade from Windows 8, and that's the version most users will likely be using.
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