How to Create Free Virtual Machine on Hyper-V with Free Windows 10?

do you want to run a virtual machine on your windows 10 pc well you don't have to download external tools for that windows 10 has an inbuilt virtual machine client named hyper-v in this video i will display how to install and set up hyper-v on windows 10. i will also tell you how to install a free windows 10 on your virtual machine in the end so watch the whole video before we start this detailed guide press the like button and subscribe to our channel in case you forget later installing hyper-v hyper-v is available on windows 10 pro and enterprise edition if you are using the home edition you won't be able to install it to install it press windows plus r button to open the run dialog then type optional features.exe and press enter now you will see turn windows features on or off dialog expand the hyper-v feature and check all the boxes then click on the ok button it will take some time to install it then click on the restart now button to finish the installation once your pc is restarted type hyper-v manager on the start click on it to open let's thank our sponsor malwarefox for this video malwarefox gets rid of hidden malware from your computer it is a simple yet effective anti-malware software providing protection against adware spyware ransomware keyloggers and all modern cyber threats check the description below to download for free creating a new virtual machine to create a new virtual machine on hyper-v right-click on your computer name here hover your mouse over new now choose virtual machine you will see some instructions in the new virtual machine wizard click next in the second step you have to specify the name of the virtual machine in its location so type the name in the text box and select the location where you want to save it in the third step you need to choose the generation of the virtual machine generation 1 supports 32-bit and 64-bit older operating systems however generation 2 supports only 64-bit latest operating systems with advanced features so i'm going with generation two in the fourth step you need to specify the ram usage for the virtual machine a standard windows 10 requires at least two gigabytes of ram so i enter 2048 megabytes memory here and keep the dynamic memory selected this way the virtual machine could use more than two gigabytes when required the fifth step is about giving your virtual machine access to the network you can choose the default switch to provided access or can provide the access later i am picking not connected right now i will deal with it later to show you how to do that in the sixth step you need to provide a virtual hard disk to your machine here you can create a new one or select an existing hard disk or can choose to attach the hard drive later i am going to create a new one name your hard disk and select its location and then specify the size in gigabytes windows 10 requires 32 gigabytes of hard drive for 64 bit 16 gigabytes of hard disk for 32-bit installation so choose accordingly i am just going to test it so only giving 20 gigabytes of space in the seventh step you need to specify the installation options you can choose to install the os later or can select the bootable iso image file if you had connected your machine with a network you could also choose to install the os on the network now click next and you will see the summary click finish now that the virtual machine is created to start the machine right click on it and choose connect then click on start now the virtual machine is starting since i have selected the network boot option it is searching for the bootable medium which isn't there i have to change its boot medium from settings and choose the iso bootable media before we do that let's decide what we are going to run on this machine you have created a virtual machine but you need an os to run on that if you want to run windows 10 you can download the windows media creation tool to create windows 10 iso but you will need a key to install it if you don't have a key you can run the free version of windows 10 for a virtual machine we will get back to it later first let's see how to install the windows 10 with key on the virtual machine creating bootable iso for windows 10 download the windows media creation tool the link is in the description run it and click yes in the uac pop-up read and accept the license agreement select create installation media and click next you can untick this box and choose the language edition and architecture then click next select the iso file option and click next now describe the location to save the iso that's it it will take a long time depending on your internet and download the windows 10 and create the bootable iso installing windows 10 on virtual machine in our virtual machine we haven't given the location of iso earlier so we need to do that now select the virtual machine click settings click on scsi controller here we are going to add a dvd drive that will have the iso and works like we are installing from a dvd select dvd drive and click on add now select the image file click on browse to specify the location of the iso image file we created using the windows media creation tool if you want to connect to a network you can change that too click on network adapter and select the default switch now start the machine you will see press any key to boot from cd or dvd now press any key and the windows installation will begin select language time and input method and click next click on install now now provide the product key for windows 10 and follow the instruction to install it installing a free windows 10 for virtual machine as i told you earlier microsoft is giving windows 10 for free to run on a virtual machine this os works free for 90 days and after that it stops working so if you want to test a few things 90 days of free windows 10 is a good option this virtual os only starts if you have a registered version of windows 10 on your physical pc visit the link from the description and select ms edge on windows 10 and now select hyper-v windows click on download zip since you are downloading a virtual machine and hard disk it's quite vast in size you have to download around six gigabytes of a zip file once the download is finished extract the files which is again going to take more time now open hyper-v manager click on the action menu choose import virtual machine click next now click on browse and provide the location of the virtual machine you downloaded click next click next again here the wizard gives you the option to choose or create a unique id for the machine we are going to use the existing one so no changes here click next click on finish the virtual machine is imported successfully right-click on it and choose connect start the machine and in a few seconds you will see the login screen the password is in the installation instructions go back to the page you downloaded the free virtual machine and click on view installation instructions you will see a pdf file the password is under login instructions i am displaying the password so you can snap on it press the enter button and that's it you get a free windows 10 virtual machine for 90 days if you face any problem setting up the hyper-v comment down below and we will try to help you like this video and subscribe to our channel press the bell button to receive alerts for videos on windows 10 tips and tricks

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Keywords: hyper-v, hyper v manager, free virtual machine, free virtual machine windows 10, how to setup hyper-v on windows 10, hyper-v tutorial, installing free windows 10 on hyper-v, how to install hyper v

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Length: 10min 23sec (623 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 21 2020