Hyper-V
| Hyper-V | |
|---|---|
A Windows 10 Hyper-V guest virtual machine running inside a Windows 10 host | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Initial release | June 28, 2008 |
| Operating system | Windows Server Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 (x64; Pro, Enterprise and Education) |
| Predecessor | Windows Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual Server |
| Type | Native hypervisor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | learn |
Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.