From the course: Complete Guide to Administering Windows Server by Microsoft Press
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Implementing Hyper-V VMs - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Complete Guide to Administering Windows Server by Microsoft Press
Implementing Hyper-V VMs
- [Instructor] There are two Hyper-V VM types, Generation 1, which implements BIOS, attempts to replicate the hardware of the host, and supports legacy network adapters and other devices; Generation 2, which enables your VMs to start from a SCSI virtual hard disk, or to start from a SCSI virtual DVD, supports modern firmware on the virtual machine, supports VM Secure Boot, and implements PXE boot using standard network adapters. Generally speaking, you will always use Generation 2 VM Types. When you've set up your virtual machines and you want to connect to them, one of the best ways to do that is to use VM Enhanced Session Mode. This behaves pretty much like an RDP session to a physical server and gives you benefits like cut, copy, and paste from the target VM, audio redirection, and volume and device mapping. So it's almost as if you were connected over RDP. Because it's behaving like RDP, the user account you authenticate with must belong to the VM's Remote Desktop Users group…