Hyper-V: What is it?
In the case of Hyper-V is a virtualization Software by Microsoft. You can install other operating systems on your PC and at the same time make use of.
- You are using Windows 8 and you start Hyper-V, you can create an additional virtual machine. This can be used as operating system in Windows 8 but also other systems, such as Windows XP or Ubuntu use.
- You can install on your virtual Computer, for example Windows 7, so Windows 7 is running in parallel to Windows 8 in a separate window. Windows 7 can be minimized as your Browser and with one click, finished.
- Since the virtualization of a second operating system is very time-consuming, you need to assign some resources to Hyper-V. Your Computer, for example, has 4 GB of memory, which are commonly used alone of Windows 8, so you at the same time, operation of Windows 7 have to split the RAM on both System.
- For this reason, be operated with Hyper-V usually only two systems at the same time. The more systems are active, the slower your Computer is. However, you can create multiple virtual Computer that you can individually start.
Hyper-V virtualization in Windows
In the next practical tip we show you how to Windows 10 install in VirtualBox.
