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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…

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asked 2024-02-25T20:10:20.83+00:00
Jason Doleshall 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-12-03T16:35:54.0666667+00:00
Mike Russo 16 Reputation points
4 answers

HyperV // A lot of Checkpoints/Snapshots - Unable to merge

Hi guys, Hoping someone can shed some light or point me in the right direction. I have HyperV running on Windows Server 2016 Standard with 7 VMs running (3 windows & 4 Linux). All VMs are running perfectly. We use Acronis Cloud to run…

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asked 2021-01-21T10:17:55.497+00:00
Dean McDowell 1 Reputation point
answered 2025-12-03T04:13:59.4+00:00
Sanjay Vishwakarma 0 Reputation points
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Does SCSI-3 PR support for VHDS in Hyper-V guest clusters depend on the underlying storage connectivity (FC vs iSCSI)?

Hi everyone, Hope you are doing fine🙂. I’m working on a Linux guest cluster on Hyper-V using Cluster software LifeKeeper, please help me to confirm SCSI-3 persistent reservation behavior with different connection types for shared…

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asked 2025-12-02T03:46:01.59+00:00
houwen he 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-12-02T06:44:27.91+00:00
Nam Bui (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 625 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Hyper-V cannot be installed because virtualization support is not enabled in the BIOS

Hi, I am trying to enable Hyper-V on my VM but getting an error message "Hyper-V cannot be installed because virtualization support is not enabled in the BIOS". VM size: Standard E2s v3 (Tried: D2s_v3, D4ds_v4, D2s_v3) OS: Windows Server 2019…

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asked 2023-08-02T09:06:59.3266667+00:00
Alexander Chekushev 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-11-26T09:25:45.6833333+00:00
Matěj Korvas 0 Reputation points
5 answers

Rename Azure Virtual Machine

Hallo, I've got a question about how to rename a virtual mashine in Hyper V. I already tried several solutions on the internet (for example renaming with the powershell script), but none seems to work. Does anyone have experience with this…

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asked 2022-08-25T07:23:12.08+00:00
Anonymous
commented 2025-11-26T00:20:13.43+00:00
Joost 0 Reputation points
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Hyper-V multicore performance issue

Hi! I have a c++ application that calculates 100 factorial a million times. I ran it on windows (host machine) and it took a few milliseconds to get processed but if I run it on Oracle linux 7.3 (Guest machine created through Hyper-V), it takes 40…

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asked 2020-11-27T08:34:10.953+00:00
Nikhil Parihar 1 Reputation point
answered 2025-11-25T11:02:54.5333333+00:00
Andrea Cicchelli 5 Reputation points
2 answers

How to shut off the Hyper-V features on my Windows 11 Home edition PC

I'm trying to disable the Hyper-V features on my PC, I have Windows 11 Home edition so the Hyper-V checkmark doesn't show when I go to the Windows Features window, however if open System Info I see it is running so I know its somewhere in the computer. …

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asked 2024-12-31T14:45:17.64+00:00
Justin Armstrong 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-11-20T19:27:54.8066667+00:00
muhammad anas 0 Reputation points
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How to adjust virtual machine display resolution to adapt to full screen

I've used VirtualBox before, and am new to Hyper-V. On my Win10 desktop, I've installed a virtual machine of CentOS, and hope to make its display resolution fully utilize my hardware capacity (1920 x 1080). For Hyper-V, in context of…

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asked 2021-04-01T23:16:13.827+00:00
yzgoa 1 Reputation point
commented 2025-11-20T16:32:27.85+00:00
Don Hiatt 0 Reputation points
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Hyper-V: Virtual machine doesn't start over PXE IPv4

I have set up a virtual server for deploying virtual machines using Windows Deployment Services. When I want to start a new virtual machine (Generation 2) via PXE IPv4, I encounter the attached screens. Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this?…

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asked 2024-04-09T13:47:24.8866667+00:00
Kwadwo 5 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-11-20T13:11:35.3433333+00:00
Alaa Sharaf 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Fix connectivity in HyperV Client

Hyperv Client connected to the Default switch frequently loose conectivity after the hosts is switching between LAN and WLAN and / or vv. How to keep connectivity of the clients despite the host switching networks?

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asked 2025-09-25T09:38:52.1466667+00:00
Johannes Kingma 396 Reputation points
accepted 2025-11-18T10:30:42.4233333+00:00
Johannes Kingma 396 Reputation points
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Failover Cluster 2025 goes offline if a node is shutted down

hello, i have a Virtual Failover Cluster with windows 2025 and file share witness. All seem ok, Resource can switch normally to other node. If i Switch the Cluster Owner on the node 1 and Shutdown the node 2, there's no outage. If i leave the Cluster…

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asked 2025-06-14T11:00:31.9066667+00:00
Andrea Rinaldi 5 Reputation points
commented 2025-11-15T20:28:00.6266667+00:00
Angel M 1 Reputation point
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the vmconnect.exe crash when clicking the connection information button

After updating Windows11 22H2, the vmconnect.exe crashes when clicking the connection information button,vm are still running, and can reconnect。 IF I use RDP to link to VM, no crash happend。 The hyper-v host is win11 22H2, and the client is win10. …

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asked 2022-11-14T05:18:01.313+00:00
hang_jia 11 Reputation points
edited a comment 2025-11-13T09:49:30.18+00:00
vinixwu 51 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Overview of networking in Hyper-V

Can someone explain how networking works in Hyper-V? Specifically, how does Hyper-V handle network connectivity for virtual machines and allow communication between the host and other VMs? Also, what are the different types of virtual networks that can…

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asked 2024-08-19T15:36:18.12+00:00
xixe 200 Reputation points
answered 2025-11-10T17:09:35.8166667+00:00
johnspee5 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Unable to Connect to VM via Hyper-V Manager (WINDOWS SRV 2022)

Error-HYPER-V.jpg Hello everyone, I've big issue with my hyper-v on windows server 2022. I can't connect anymore with the console en Hyper-v manager. All my VM are working as expected but it's not possible to use the VMCompute anymore to deploy new…

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asked 2025-11-06T10:14:52.6+00:00
Christopher Migeot 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-11-06T10:59:46.44+00:00
Jason Nguyen Tran 4,100 Reputation points Independent Advisor
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Is it possible to add support for DirectX 12 in Hyper-V's GPU-P?

My system specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT RAM: 64GB DDR4 @ 3333MT/s OS: Windows 11 25H2 I’ve tested several 3D applications running on Hyper-V virtual machines using GPU Paravirtualization, and everything worked perfectly —…

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asked 2025-11-01T20:07:27.4133333+00:00
Arturbc 21 Reputation points
commented 2025-11-02T16:43:44.12+00:00
Arturbc 21 Reputation points
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Hyper-V Windows 2022 boot loader error

Hello, I'm trying to install Windows server 2022 (eval version) on Hyper-V (Windows server 2019 version). I got the UEFI error with the message the Boot loader failed. I tried with Windows server 2019 iso file and it works. Few…

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asked 2022-04-26T11:46:09.22+00:00
Philippe NONORGUES 26 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-10-31T19:20:10.13+00:00
Amar Bhosale 0 Reputation points
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What's the Network Recommendations for Hyper-V Cluster 2019

Hi, We are going to build a new hyper-v cluster based on windows server 2019 on 4 nodes, each node have 8 10 gb network card we are planning to use NIc teaming and create the following 4 NIC Management Network Live Migration Network …

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asked 2020-09-23T13:25:41.017+00:00
Ahmed Essam 211 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-23T17:32:21.6+00:00
Denis Dal Molin 51 Reputation points
7 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Hyper-v cluster 2022: WARN Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume2' ('Cluster Disk 3') has entered a paused state because of 'STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED(c000020c)'. All I/O will temporarily be queued until a path to the volume is reestablished.

Hi Everyone, I am facing quit headeach issue, took many hours for google seaching but still can not fix. It happing in our Production Hyper-V enviroment so impact quite high ultil now. I have 2 Hyper-V Clusters (2 nodes each), both running Windows Server…

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asked 2024-03-11T07:43:54.94+00:00
Nguyen Thanh Hieu 61 Reputation points
answered 2025-10-22T21:56:59.45+00:00
Alcides Miguel 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to fix "VMware Player and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Player."

Hi, I've deployed Windows 11 in cloud and installed VMware Workstation 17 (upgraded it to the latest version). I've tried to run Linux VM(Ubuntu) on VMware but I keep getting error as mentioned above. I've tried: Disabling hyper-v from "Turn…

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asked 2024-09-02T17:58:00.52+00:00
Ash A 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-22T06:19:44.63+00:00
RandomUser 0 Reputation points
8 answers

Hyper-V Login in enhanced mode not possible

Hello, I installed Windows 10 Pro completely new and installed all updates. Afterwards I enabeled hyper-v and installed Windows 10 Pro as a new guest. The normal mode works, I can login and windows is works correct. However when I switch…

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asked 2021-01-27T17:36:08.353+00:00
Matthias Pospiech 26 Reputation points
commented 2025-10-19T07:49:35.09+00:00
GARCIA EDOUARD 0 Reputation points