Enable Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012

2015-12-10

Hyper-V is a build-in feature on Windows Server new editions such as Windows Server 2012, so you do not need to install Hyper-V but just enable it.

You should enable Hyper-v via Adding Roles and Features on Windows Server 2012.

And, you should enable virtualization support in the BIOS previously.

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After you enabled virtualization support in BIOS, and you try to enable the Hyper-V feature again, now you will see you have to set a virtual switch for all Hyper-V virtual machines’ network connections:

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You can install Virtual Machines now.