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If you have Windows 8 Pro or EnterPrise and need to use Hyper-V on your machine look no further. In this post I will explain how you can start using Hyper-V up on your machine but before I get into the usage instructions I would like you to read the below link to understand how you can enable Hyper-V on your machine http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/use-windows-8-client-hyper-v-to-set-up-a-test-machine/6387407?tag=siu-container;thumbnail-view-selector Once you have enabled Hyper-V and created a Virtual Machine the next step is to be able to access this VM seamlessly. The way you can achieve this is listed below- Goto Hyper-V Console and click on Virtual Switch Manager Select the network type as Internal and click Create Virtual Switch. This network switch enables your guest Virtual Machine to communicate with the host machine. Next run ncpa.cpl in your host machine's run window. Right click the Internal network adapter and click properties. Double click on...

I recently tried to help someone remote desktop into Hyper-V VM as the person wasnt comfortable working with the resolution offered by the Hyper-V Console. However for some reason RDP was not working. I checked port no 3389 through netstat -na|more command and found that it was listening I checked that remote desktop was enabled however still RDP wasnt working Finally with the help a colleague i found that in the VM Settings-> a checkbox Enable virtual LAN identification was checked and this needed to be unchecked in order for the RDP to work. Why would you want to use RDP to connect to your VM? Well for a much better display resolution and seamless clipboard access