To create Windows Server 2012 R2 compatible VMs, simply use PowerShell and specify the version number. Give your new VM Name and choose where to save the VM configuration files. Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian, and briefly known before its release as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor it can create virtual. Supported virtual machine configuration versions Initiate the New Virtual Machine Wizard 2. Anyway, I still have some older Hyper-V hosts running Windows Server 2012 R2, and to be able to export / import VMs from a Windows Server 2016 to a Windows Server 2012 R2 box, they need to be the same version, and Windows Server 2012 R2 really don't get version 8.0 VMs, which is the default version in Windows Server 2016. Step 1: Prepare your computer for Virtualization Step 2: Install Hypervisor (Virtualization Tool) Step 3: Import a Virtual Machine Step 4: Start the Virtual. In the right-hand Actions pane, click New, then Virtual Machine to start the wizard. One of the areas that are most fun (IMHO) to test is Hyper-V, there are a gazillion of new Hyper-V features. To create a new virtual machine, open Hyper-V Manager and follow these steps: In the left pane, click on the Hyper-V host that you wish to host the new virtual machine. Hopefully you are now playing around with the Windows Server 2016 evaluation version that was released last week (during Microsoft Ignite 2016).

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