Hyper-V : Create Virtual Machine (Windows)2024/12/12

Windows PowerShell
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# create a directory for virtual machines
PS C:\Users\Administrator> mkdir C:\Virtual_Machine 

# confirm virtual switches
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-VMSwitch 

Name     SwitchType NetAdapterInterfaceDescription
----     ---------- ------------------------------
Bridge01 External   Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter

# set virtual machine name and others
PS C:\Users\Administrator> $ParentDir = 'C:\Virtual_Machine' 
PS C:\Users\Administrator> $VMName = 'Win2k25' 
PS C:\Users\Administrator> $Switch = 'Bridge01' 

# create a virtual machine with generation 2
PS C:\Users\Administrator> New-VM -Name $VMName `
-MemoryStartupBytes 8GB `
-Generation 2 `
-NewVHDPath "$ParentDir\$VMName\$VMName.vhdx" `
-NewVHDSizeBytes 50GB `
-Path "$ParentDir\$VMName" `
-SwitchName $Switch 

Name    State CPUUsage(%) MemoryAssigned(M) Uptime   Status             Version
----    ----- ----------- ----------------- ------   ------             -------
Win2k25 Off   0           0                 00:00:00 Operating normally 12.0

# change vCPU count
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Set-VMProcessor $VMName -Count 4 

# add SCSI controler
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Add-VMScsiController -VMName $VMName 

# set install image
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Add-VMDvdDrive -VMName $VMName `
-ControllerNumber 1 `
-ControllerLocation 0 `
-Path 'C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Win2025_26100.1742.240906-0331.ge_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso' 

# set virtual DVD first boot device
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Set-VMFirmware -VMName $VMName -FirstBootDevice (Get-VMDvdDrive -VMName $VMName) 

# start the virtual machine
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Start-VM -Name $VMName 

# after this, refer to [13] to install OS