Solved Windows 11 and Hyper V enhanced session.

Hi folks
Try setting up W11 (I assume your HYPER-V VM is running W11 which seems to be where the problem is) as a Tiger vnc server and connect from the HOST Windows machine via a VNC display rather than RDP.

I also assume that the problem is trying to connect to the VM from a different machine on your LAN rather than simply HOST to VM communication.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks
Try setting up W11 (I assume your HYPER-V VM is running W11 which seems to be where the problem is) as a Tiger vnc server and connect from the HOST Windows machine via a VNC display rather than RDP.

I also assume that the problem is trying to connect to the VM from a different machine on your LAN rather than simply HOST to VM communication.

Cheers
jimbo

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The solution was posted by @Kari in post #59 of this thread (2 posts ago).

NavyLCDR said:

The solution was posted by @Kari in post #59 of this thread (2 posts ago).

Windows 11 and Hyper V enhanced session.

That's really weird then. Enhanced mode will show me nothing but the accessibility and power button on the lower right, everything else is missing, except for the desktop backkground.

www.elevenforum.com

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Hi there
Thanks

Missed that one

Cheers
jimbo

hrk said:

If using MS account and enhanced mode, "Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts" must ne OFF.
Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options.

Windows Hello is for local logins only.

Nothing new here. Windows 11 is Windows 10, so far.

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This and using remote connection works if guest is win pro.

hrk said:

If using MS account and enhanced mode, "Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts" must ne OFF.
Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options.

Windows Hello is for local logins only.

Nothing new here. Windows 11 is Windows 10, so far.

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thanks. I ran into this today playing with Insider Dev Preview 22557. Had to disable this to get enhanced session to work. This post got me going much faster than I would have searching for this myself.

Kari said:

OK, my idea did not work.

A possible workaround, John: Connect to a single display, not too high resolution enhanced session. When connected, close the VM window. Select Edit session settings on VM pane in Hyper-V Manager (bottom right pane):

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It re-opens VM Connect window. Now select Use all monitors. It just might work, repeat the procedure if not: close VM Connect Windows, re-open it from Edit session settings.

This is an old trick, I had to do it sometimes multiple times to finally get to enhanced mode when we were still using pre-release Insider builds late 2014 - early 2015.

Kari

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Using one monitor, and switching off the other one worked for me! Thank you so much for the idea Kari! *

Well, I finally got around to getting a more modern video card that I've been wanting for a while to replce my aging 970, as well as upgrading my storage, and after playing around with them, I think it is time to start setting up some new Vms.

At least this time I'll be ready to have them working correctly the way that I want and need them to lol.

Kari, your posts in this thread have been incredibly helpful, so thank you! However, there are two things I still don't understand (or maybe I should say that there are two things I have *overlooked* in this thread?): 1) What do we do if the option to disable the "Windows Hello" feature is itself disabled? (In other words, it's on by default, and greyed-out). On a side note, my VM is not on a domain etc. (so there shouldn't be any type of policies etc. affecting the VM), but my Hyper-V host PC is indeed "joined" to an Azure-AD (but I don't think that affects the VM....correct?). And 2) If the solution to the first problem is your suggested "hybrid local account" method of installation, I thought I remember hearing that Windows-11 finally got rid of the ability to install that operating system without a Microsoft Account (Windows-10 made it difficult, but Windows-11 has made that impossible).....Is that not correct?

Again, my apologies if I have overlooked the answers to these questions within this thread! Thanks again for all the assistance here!

I just set up 3 new VMs yesterday - on initial install, that option seems to be disabled, until you get through the process of setting up the Hello method to log in (PIN). At that point, (perhaps after a reboot), the option should be there to be disabled.

Side question: @Kari - if I understand correctly, I need to use my PW to log in every time I boot with Enhanced Session / enable it in the VM, correct?

z3r010 said:

I've found a workaround, I've enabled remote desktop on it and remote in from my PC.

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THIS is the solution that worked for me. Enhanced mode wasn't working at all. This allows me to access the guest VM using my full screen.