Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Make Hyper-V VM guest management so much better

I'm sure I'm late to the party with this, but it has been a game changer for me.  Normally when you 'Connect' to a VM via the HyperV console, the interface is a bummer. 

You can't copy/paste
You can't access network drives from the VM unless the VM NIC is enabled

You can easily change the default behavior to give you a more RDP-like experience when connecting to VMs.  From an elevated Powershell, do:
Set-VMHost -EnableEnhancedSessionMode $True

Then to connect to a guest, right-click and click 'Connect'.  Right away you'll see you can set the screen resolution (use full screen), then click 'Show Options' for attaching local resources.  The world is your oyster.




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