Hyper-V Virtual Machines on Windows 8 PRO

Windows 8 is a revolution in Microsoft's operating systems, it is something that does not escape anyone, but inside it it has pearls for advanced or professional users that make a difference and that represent a great advantage.

Today I want to take a look at the Hyper-V machine manager that includes Windows 8.

Activating Hyper-V Virtual Machine Manager

Activating Hyper-V Machine Manager is relatively easy. First I access the Control Panel of my equipment, selecting ">

As soon as I accept the change, Windows will start installing the new software internally and I see two new icons in my applications: one to access the virtual machine manager and another to make a remote connection to any of them.

Now for the virtual machines

Advantages and disadvantages of MV

A virtual machine is, in a very summarized and simple way, a copy in a single file of a complete operating system with all its applications installed , which doesn't care what hardware it runs on, because it actually runs on an emulator.

The advantages of these virtual machines are many, both for advanced users and professionals. Since it allows you to have different operating systems running on the same computer, simultaneously, without having to deal with dual boots, multiple installations or any of the integration problems that can result.

The negative side begins to be glimpsed when we think that we have an intermediate emulation layer that consumes, by itself, part of the hardware and software, which impacts on the capabilities of the virtual machines that it supports. Thus the performance of the VMs is lower compared to a physical level environment.

On the other hand, these virtualizations are especially sensitive to physical failures of the storage devices, and great care must be taken to keep backup copies up to date, which, on the other hand, are much easier to perform as there are a very small number of files.

But the best is an example, and so in this article you can see the virtual machines for application development in Windows Phone 8, which allow me to boot a device with the operating system of the phones on my computer without having to physically have one at my disposal.

The Windows 8 Hyper-V Manager

The first thing to keep in mind is that this manager is ">

Among them is creating a Virtual SAN, that is to say, a cabin of hard disks that behave as one and that provides storage service to all the MV; also the ease of creation, modification and deletion of virtual machines; and being able to create multiple snapshots or photographs of the current state to, if necessary, go back to a previous moment in time.

Another advantage of having a Hyper-V client is that it allows me to import, export, and move virtual machines to other clients or to a server 2012 with ease, since it is embedded in the operating system that supports it.

In summary, Windows 8 now offers us a robust platform to run our virtual machines without being forced to use third-party applications.