How to Enable GPU on Hyper-V
How can I enable my GPU on Hyper-V? I have created a new virtual machine using Hyper-V Quick Create for Windows 10 MSIX packaging environment, but my GTX 1650 laptop GPU doesn't appear in Task Manager. I have found several methods to activate it online,…
Install CPU number 2 on a HyperV server
I have a Windows 2019 server where a HyperV is installed. When the HyperV server was installed, the physical box was with one CPU. I have subsequently installed one more CPU in the same specification as the first CPU. I also installed the same…
No login on virtual machine
A VM in Hyper-V at starts fine with a background and Keyboard Layout, Accessibility and Power in lower right corner works. But I cannot get the login prompt. I have tried to reconnect and it boots in safe mode. The VM is a Windows 11 23H2 running with…
Virtual PC keeps disconnecting Video while on battery
I have a laptop with Windowns 11 PRO. I use a virtual machine with gpu passthrough for work applications. It has an NVIDIA RTX 4070 and Intel IRIS. It works flawlessly while on AC. The moment I work on battery, VMCONNECT disconnects if I leave the…
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Error: "Cannot Connect to the Virtual Machine"
I am unable to connect to a Hyper-V virtual machine on my new Windows 11 Pro computer. Despite enabling virtualization in the BIOS, the error message "Cannot Connect to the Virtual Machine" persists when I try to connect. I can see the machine…
How can I fix an issue where my internet stops when downloading something in a hyper-v vm while using a VPN on host (both using windows)?
The setup where the problem happens is having a vpn (ExpressVPN) active on my host computer and a windows instance running in hyper-v. My problem is that whenever I download a software inside the virtual machine, the internet stops working on both the…
How to perform windows 10 installation on a nested VM?
Hello, I am currently developing a proof of concept for academic purposes that involves a fully unattended installation of Windows 10 within a nested L2 VM. The architecture is as follows: L0: Linux Physical Host running a KVM hypervisor. L1: Linux…
Hyper-V replica - EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisk for SQL VM not working
According to Support policy for hardware virtualization product - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn, Hyper-V replica for a VM running SQL server is a supported scenario as long as you enable EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisks as described in the…
Hyper-V version 12: Error the target device has insufficient resources to complete the operation
Windows 11 24H2 Hyper-V version 12 Error the target device has insufficient resources to complete the operation
Unable to passthrough Intel® UHD Graphics to a Hyper-V Using DDA on Windows11 Pro
I have an Intel N100 CPU machine with an integrated GPU (Intel® UHD Graphics) running the latest Windows 11 Pro. I created a VM with Hyper-V and want to pass through the Intel GPU to this VM using Discrete Device Assignment (DDA). This would enable the…
Storage Pool Number of Column
Hello, I have read many article when we creating the storage pool, the number of column have significant to increase the performance. Unfortunately if we want to resize number of column we need to destroy the volume. For my first initialization i only…
Another session for your user is blocked notifying Local Session Manager for 0 minutes
I have hyper-v VM running on my win-10 laptop. After some time, when I resume the VM after I was temporarily off, I get a message: Another session for your user is blocked notifying Local Session Manager for 0 minutes so we are unable to log you in.…
Windows 10 20H2 to Windows 10 22H2
Hi everyone, we want to update the Windows 10 20H2 image to Windows 10 22H2 using DISM command When run the dism command dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:C:\Image_Source\image.wim /index:1 on the W10 20H2 WIM I receive this value: See JPG image 20H2 in…
Hyper-V not forwarding VLan tags to virtual machine
I am attempting to setup a virtual firewall on the Hyper-V guest. The guest is connected to 1 virtual Nic but the vm has multiple vlans attached to that interface. The host seems to be removing the tag from the traffic either as it leaves the vm or as…
Windows Storage Space Direct
Hello, If I read some articles and videos about Storage Space Direct, we can combine all local storages into one storage with redundancy (mirror & parity). So if from redundancy can be achieve from storage space side, it still needed we create raid…
All our S2D Clusters suddenly freeze and fail when one node is offline
Hello, we are running 12 hyperconverged Hyper-V / S2D Failover Clusters on Server 2019 which were installed during the last 3 years and everything was running fine and stable until a few month ago. 3 of them are 2 node clusters with 4-way mirrored /…
Hyper-V Error, "Cannot Connect to the Virtual Machine"
I have a brand new computer and I'm trying to get a Hyper-V virtual machine up and running but i keep getting the error, "Cannot Connect to the Virtual Machine". I have enabled virtualization in the BIOS. I can see the machine in the Hyper-V…
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Unable to move VMs between hosts after patching
Our InfoSec team patched our three-node cluster and now the VMs are failing to migrate to the first node. The message is as follows: "Live migration of 'Virtual Machine pvx4050' failed. Virtual machine migration operation for 'pvx4050' failed at…
iSCSI-Initiator do not reconnect a drive sitting on qnap server
Hi All, I have just finished setting up at new QNAP NAS, where I have used a part of the disk space as an iSCSI Blocked lun. Following the guides in the QNAP guides "How to create and use the iSCSI target service on a QNAP NAS" and "How to…