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How can anybody use virtualization on Windows? Seriously! My second experience with Hyper-V. Not only it can't do basic stuff like forward devices into VM. And CPU and network configuration is simply a joke with almost no settings. But even those few stop working after a while! Aaarrrgh! Spend hour clicking like crazy trying to get network working. I wanted just a simple network between host and guest. Willing to setup static IP. Can't be simpler. But no, can't do. Somehow started working after ten times trying the same. And stoped after few seconds. Are you kidding me? And there are people using this peice of crap seriously and even call this production? Screw it. My brother will have to learn to have VMs in Linux.

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    True Hyper-V is missing some stuff like shared folders, yet i use it productively with about 20vms on every operating system and love it.
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    Hmm... My experiences with Hyper V have not been too shabby.

    Azure runs off it too, FYI.
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    Haven't tried Azure and not planning too. To be fair whole networking on Windows is just really basic and hard to guess what all those wizards mean by their questions. And it breaks by itself in general randomly, so might not be entirely Hyper-V fault, but Windows in general.
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    someone in my office convinced management to scrap our esx infrastructure for hv, including the newly acquired 36TB SAN because it was 'easier' and was 'free' with Windows..
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    @ianjofriel So that clever someone should manage it, right ;-D Tell him that there is KVM, that is free as well, much more usable and easier to setup and can do stuff that Hyper-V can't even begin to dream about. I really tried to make Hyper-V work, didn't wanted my brother and his non-technical coworkers depending on me managing their 'server', but so far my brother is happy with KVM as all he has to do is to turn computer on and then switch it off. He even said that it is faster. Might be thanks to smaller overhead or due to being able to set correct CPU topology. Or due to virtio drivers. Or everything together.
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