Windows – Running a VM on Windows 8 without disabling Hyper V

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I know, there is a bigger discussion about this topic, but currently I did'nt find a good solution for this issue.

First: I got a Windows 8.1 host system that uses Hyper V to run the Windows Phone 8 Emulator.

I also would like to run a virtual machine on this system (VirtualBox, VMWare, whatever works).

The solutions I know:

Hyper V Manager to set up a virtual machine (e.g. a UNIX-system)

Hyper V is made for server environments, so there are no USB and sound drivers.

The usage of bcdedit.exe to enable/disable Hyper V (+ reboot) to run other VMs than Hyper V VMs

I don't want to reboot my system to run a virtual machine. :/

Maybe someone else has a good idea for me. Some ideas I have in mind is to run the Windows Phone Emulator without Hyper V – but this is probably not possible. Or to run a virtual machine while Hyper V is enabled, I don't need hardware virtualization in that VM, but it should be fast enough to run e.g. a browser and to play videos and some other stuff.

Do you need some more information about my pc?

Thanks.

Best Answer

Since you are using Windows 8.1, it does support USB redirection to VMs and also getting audio from VMs! But it has to be a "Generation 2" VM. You need to enable and install Integration Services on the VM to do this.

Here is what you will need to do:

From Hyper-V manager, right click on your Hyper-V Host (left pane) > Settings > User > Enhanced Session Mode > Check option "Use Enhanced Session Mode"
In the same dialog, also check option "Allow enhanced session mode" under "Enhanced Session Mode Policy"
In Hyper-V manager, right click on the Vista VM and go to Settings > Management > Integration Services > Check option "Guest Services".
Connect to VM > Action > "Insert Integration Services Setup Disk"
Install Integration Services and Restart VM.
When you reconnect, you will get a Connection setting dialog and you should be able to configure both USB and Audio settings from there as shown in image below:

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You should be able to get Audio output from the VM on to your Guest through Virtual Machine Connection. Hope this process works for you.

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-b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port. In some cases well-known executables host multiple independent components, and in these cases the sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient permissions.

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-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.

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Windows Server 2003 and later (i.e. anything after Windows XP 32 bit) provide the where.exe program which does some of what which does, though it matches all types of files, not just executable commands. (It does not match built-in shell commands like cd.) It will even accept wildcards, so where nt* finds all files in your %PATH% and current directory whose names start with nt.

Try where /? for help.

Note that Windows PowerShell defines where as an alias for the Where-Object cmdlet, so if you want where.exe, you need to type the full name instead of omitting the .exe extension.

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