Virtualization provides a plethora of solutions from making the most of an organization’s hardware investment to running specific applications in other OS offerings. Windows 8 was the first Windows client operating system to include hardware virtualization support natively. Using the same technology found in Windows Server 2012 R2, the embedded Hyper-V client allowed IT professionals to move VMs from server to client without the requirement to re-learn the use of Hyper-V features and tools. Further enhancements were introduced in Windows 8.1 such as Enhanced Session Mode, enabling high fidelity graphics for connections to VM's using the RDP protocol, and USB redirection which is enabled from the host to VM's. Windows 10 brings further enhancements to the native hypervisor offering. These include:

Hot add and remove for memory and network adapters – works with generation 2 virtual machines running both Windows and Linux

– works with generation 2 virtual machines running both Windows and Linux Windows PowerShell Direct – the ability to run commands inside a virtual machine from the host operating system

– the ability to run commands inside a virtual machine from the host operating system Linux secure boot - Ubuntu 14.04 and later, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 OS offerings running on generation 2 virtual machines are now able to boot with the secure boot option enabled

- Ubuntu 14.04 and later, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 OS offerings running on generation 2 virtual machines are now able to boot with the secure boot option enabled Hyper-V Manager Down-level management - Hyper-V manager can manage computers running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1

Step 1: Prerequisites The following prerequisites are required to successfully run Client Hyper-V on Windows 10:

Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise 64 bit Operating System

64 bit processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)

4GB system RAM at minimum

BIOS-level Hardware Virtualization support

Step 2: Setting Up Hyper-V