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Client Hyper-V uses the same technology and virtual-machine formats as in current versions of
Windows Server, which allows you to move virtual machines between server and client machines
and run them without modification. Client Hyper-V runs on 64-bit versions of Windows 10 Pro and
Enterprise. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit guest operating systems, which can be created on the fly
from physical installation media or by mounting an ISO file. You can also create a virtual hard disk
(VHD) from a physical disk, even one that contains a running operating system, using the Windows
Sysinternals Disk2vhd tool, available from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals/ee656415.
More Info In enterprise environments, you can use the Virtual Machine Manager in System
Center to convert physical computers into virtual machines. For an overview of the process,
see “How to Deploy a Virtual Machine by Converting a Physical Computer (P2V),” at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh368990.aspx.
The Hyper-V management tools in Windows 10 should look familiar if you used this feature in
Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows 10 adds some important features that IT pros will
appreciate:
■ ■ Production checkpoints This option, which is enabled by default in new VMs created with
Windows 10, allows you to set a checkpoint that uses the Volume Snapshot Service to create
“point in time” backups that can easily be restored. This feature is especially useful for testing
scenarios and is more robust than the older checkpoint technology, which saved the current
state of a VM and all running apps and services. Figure 8-1 shows this feature in the configuration
settings for a VM.
104 CHAPTER 8 Hyper-V and Desktop Virtualization Options