Comments on: 10 hidden Hyper-V features you should know about!

By: prajna

prajna — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 05:29:40 +0000

so is somebody spying on me or not -.- i couldn’t make it past the enhanced session mode lol

By: Mikhail Sokolov

Mikhail Sokolov — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:23:54 +0000

Hi Thomas, I need to prevent creating a clone of my VM, so I tried to find a unique identifier for Hyper-V VM. I checked /etc/machine-id (I’m using Ubuntu on my VM), dmidecode, smbios-sys-info-lite and all of them gave me the identical results for original & clone VM (I used Export to create a clone). Do you know a way to provide a unique ID for every new VM and get access to this ID from inside VM OS? Thank you!

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:33:23 +0000

In reply to Milagan. The option you have is to use enhanced session mode. This will bring a popup (looks similar to the RDP connection). There you can select local devices such as USB drives etc to connect to the VM. However, if you close the enhanced session mode windows, the connection is lost.

By: Milagan

Milagan — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:29:40 +0000

How to connect USB devices from hyper-v machines, USB hardware is not detect in hyper-v machine, but its shows in main machine… i have a USB devices, its not a storage.. please advice

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:25:19 +0000

In reply to Kishu Parashar.

You will need to create NAT rules and Port Mappings.

You will find more information here: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016/05/set-up-a-hyper-v-virtual-switch-using-a-nat-network/

By: Kishu Parashar

Kishu Parashar — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:28:56 +0000

Hello Thomas Sir, i created one External NAT and connected my nested vm’s with External Virtual Switch. Now i want to reach to my nested vm’s with RDP from outside, How can i reach them from outside ??

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:38:05 +0000

In reply to Aaron Benner. I think the best and easiest way, is to use Enhanced Session mode from the Host and map the local harddrive. However, this is session-based, and not for a consistent long-term access. Would that be enough for you?

By: Aaron Benner

Aaron Benner — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:07:40 +0000

what is a quick way to have the VM get access to the local hard drives of the server?

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 10:53:55 +0000

In reply to Gabriel. Well if you are using NAT then the host is always connected. If you want to complete Isolate, you will need to use an external Switch with a VLAN Tag and disable the Management Network Adapter option in the Virtual Switch settings.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 15:58:47 +0000

How do I isolate traffic from networks that are connected to this NAT from my home network? Even inserting a vlan tag into the virtual switch and vm’s network interface can I still ping my physical machine, how to isolate one from the other?