Hyper-V specification and APIs documentation

Documentation for the top level functional specification and APIs for Hyper-V for developers.

Hyper-V top level functional specification

Overview

• Top level functional specification overview

Reference

• Data types
• Feature discovery
• Hypercalls
• Partitions
• Virtual processor

Reference

• Virtual Memory Management Unit
• Virtual Interrupt Controller
• Inter-Partition Communication
• Timers
• Virtual Secure Mode
• Nested virtualization

Hyper-V APIs

Overview

• API overview

Reference

• Hyper-V WMI provider
• Management reference
• Host Compute System API
• Host Compute Network API
• Windows Hypervisor Platform API Definitions
• Virtual hard disk interface
• Hypervisor Instruction Emulator API
• VM Saved Dump Provider API

Hyper-V product documentation

Overview

• Hyper-V documentation
• Overview