Hyper-V! What is the point or the advantage behind using this?

Hi

I was watching one of Kari's videos to do with Audit Mode the other day and wondered why he uses Hyper-V?

They say there is no such thing as a dumb question, right?

What is the benefit to installing the Hyper-V interface in Windows 10 22H2 please?

All I can enable on my machine are the Hyper-V Management Tools and the Hyper-V Services?

Perhaps the Hyper-V Hypervisor is greyed out because I do not have virtualisation enable in my BIOS? Or at least I think it isn't?

Thanks in advance

Bree said:

For me the benefit is being able to run half a dozen completely different PCs at the same time on the one machine. I have some that are Insider builds (to see what's coming next), other that are older versions of Windows, and a Linux mint VM too. These I use for testing networking interoperability and answering questions about networking with mixed OS's.

That's bonkers. Absolutely brilliant illustration of how it can be used. Cannot begin to imagine the complex issues you might have to deal with regarding interoperability!!!

Bree said:

For Home that's all you can enable anyway, but your profile says you have Pro. Yes, to use Hyper-V to run virtual machines you need virtualization enabled.

Yes. I am on 22H2 Pro.

I think Kari has or does use it for creating custom iso builds which is what generated my question.

So I am wondering if I can create an iso, store it on a virtual drive until required or to be modified, then drop it into a partition as a recovery image so it resides on the same drive or even another drive for fast recovery if ever needed, you know with all the drivers and programmes I use.

Kari talks somewhere of being about to get back up and running from disaster status within 10-20 minutes from memory which would be amazing.

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Actually. I've just had a thought.

Is it possible with Hyper-V to launch my old hard drive with its separate OS installed and which is currently plugged into my PC as a virtual machine?

Would I be able to transfer files from the old hard drive to the new one in that way? That would be super useful if I am able to network the drives together and somehow drag and drop in File Explorer?

cereberus said:

You can network between Host device and HyperV vms in same way as you would between two pcs on LAN.

That's useful to know. Thanks.