new in Hyper-V . some help

mclaudio · Oct 20, 2023

Hello
i am installing hyper v windows 11 (over 11)

i have a few difficulties. hope someone can help

1 - is there an easy way to share a USB drive?
2 - when in full screen the image always shows in a small square. how can i change it?
3 - when i enter full screen what hotkey to exit and come back to windows?

thanks a lot

cereberus · Oct 20, 2023

1) yes - but you need to install Windows 11 Pro (or better) to use enhanced mode. If your guest is Windows 11 Home, you can only use basic mode and then you cannot share a usb drive.

2) same - you need to use enhanced mode

3) cursor up to top of screen to get Hyper-V toolbar, then you can minimise it.

Bree · Oct 20, 2023

As cereberus says, enhanced mode makes it a lot easier, but you need a Pro guest to use that.

If your guest is Home, there are still a few things you can do to help.

You could share the usb drive from your Host, then the Guest should be able to see and use it as a network share.

When running a guest full screen you should be able to change its display settings to a resolution that makes better use of the available screen.

cereberus · Oct 20, 2023

Bree said:
As cereberus says, enhanced mode makes it a lot easier, but you need a Pro guest to use that.

If your guest is Home, there are still a few things you can do to help.

You could share the usb drive from your Host, then the Guest should be able to see and use it as a network share.

When running a guest full screen you should be able to change its display settings to a resolution that makes better use of the available screen.

Yeah - sharing usb drive as a network drive works on Home.

Actually, my tests show accessing a drive connected to a network share is much faster than accessing via the Tsclient in enhanced mode.

Re. resizing a screen, in Home, can be a bit trickier. You can edit one of the config files and manually set the desired resolution.

mclaudio · Oct 21, 2023

thank you all for the answers !

Bree · Oct 21, 2023

cereberus said:
Re. resizing a screen, in Home, can be a bit trickier. You can edit one of the config files and manually set the desired resolution.

I have no problems using Settings in the guest Windows 11 Home. I can choose anything up to the maximum resolution of the Host's display, 1920x1080 in my case.

The same applies to a Windows 10 Home and a Windows 8.1 Home guest.

The choice is more restricted for a Windows 7 Home guest.

mclaudio · Oct 22, 2023

hi there.
trying to boot from VHDX...so i made VHDX shadow copy, then in other PC added to boot menu but i get the following error
what am i doing wrong?

if i disable secure boot i got a different blue screen

cereberus · Oct 22, 2023

mclaudio said:
hi there.
trying to boot from VHDX...so i made VHDX shadow copy, then in other PC added to boot menu but i get the following error
what am i doing wrong?
View attachment 75051

Are you trying to native boot vhdx file?

mclaudio · Oct 22, 2023

cereberus said:
Are you trying to native boot vhdx file?

yes i made vhdx with microsoft tool and now trying to dual boot it

i also tried to search other tools to clone the hard disk in alternative...but havent found one that is free

cereberus · Oct 22, 2023

mclaudio said:
yes i made vhdx with microsoft tool and now trying to dual boot it

i also tried to search other tools to clone the hard disk in alternative...but havent found one that is free

Install Macrium Reflect (free version is still available) or trial version (30 days) to clone.

mclaudio · Oct 22, 2023

cereberus said:
Install Macrium Reflect (free version is still available) or trial version (30 days) to clone.

I WILL try despite i would prefere to use vhdx so that it can be portable eventually

the other problem is that i want to clone from laptop to a desktop....and i am using an external disc to transfer file....thats why i was looking for vhdx solution...to transfer using external disk

cereberus · Oct 22, 2023

mclaudio said:
I WILL try despite i would prefere to use vhdx so that it can be portable eventually

the other problem is that i want to clone from laptop to a desktop....and i am using an external disc to transfer file....thats why i was looking for vhdx solution...to transfer using external disk

Huh - I was talking about cloning software. It is easy to clone current OS to a vhdx file.

Use an image backup rather than cloning then restore it to new pc. However, it might not boot ok on new device depending on drivers.

mclaudio · Oct 23, 2023

thank for your support
i have tried and the image boot from viboot but when i try to assign on the boot menu does not boot....
i am kind of desesparting...
i think i will give up

jimbo45 · Oct 23, 2023

mclaudio said:
thank for your support
i have tried and the image boot from viboot but when i try to assign on the boot menu does not boot....
i am kind of desesparting...
i think i will give up

Don't give up :

So on your disk you've probably got EFI partition, Windows system ("C") partition and either on "C" or in another partition or disk a vhdx file yourfile.vhdx
I'll assume it's on a D partition or disk -- if on the "C" drive it's the same principle.

so from your current windows ----- run :

diskpart
list disk
select disk xxxx <disk where your vhdx file is>
select vdisk file=d:\yourfile.vhdx <your vhdx file>
attach vdisk
list disk
select disk yyyy <you should see a new disk - is the vdisk mounted as a disk>
list vol qqqq <you should see a list of volumes -- select the one representing the vdisk -- recognizeable by its size>
assign letter = W
select vol aaaa <the efi partition from the booted disk>
assign letter = S

exit
bcdboot w:\windows /s S: /f UEFI

now re-boot the system- you then should see your 2 windows systems in the standard Windows blue boot screen.
doesn't matter if your windows vhdx file has its own efi partition -- use the efi partition of your primary disk (current boot disk) to update the bootloader - then you don't have to select the computers firmware to select the boot option.

buenas tardes

Cheers
jimbo

mclaudio · Oct 23, 2023

jimbo45 said:
Don't give up :

So on your disk you've probably got EFI partition, Windows system ("C") partition and either on "C" or in another partition or disk a vhdx file yourfile.vhdx
I'll assume it's on a D partition or disk -- if on the "C" drive it's the same principle.

so from your current windows ----- run :

diskpart
list disk
select disk xxxx <disk where your vhdx file is>
select vdisk file=d:\yourfile.vhdx <your vhdx file>
attach vdisk
list disk
select disk yyyy <you should see a new disk - is the vdisk mounted as a disk>
list vol qqqq <you should see a list of volumes -- select the one representing the vdisk -- recognizeable by its size>
assign letter = W
select vol aaaa <the efi partition from the booted disk>
assign letter = S

exit
bcdboot w:\windows /s S: /f UEFI

now re-boot the system- you then should see your 2 windows systems in the standard Windows blue boot screen.
doesn't matter if your windows vhdx file has its own efi partition -- use the efi partition of your primary disk (current boot disk) to update the bootloader - then you don't have to select the computers firmware to select the boot option.

buenas tardes

Cheers
jimbo

i will pm u