Installing Hyper-V on Windows 10

You can enable Hyper-V on Windows 10, only if you have a Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition. You can enable this feature using GUI:

• Go to “Programs and Features”
• Click on “Turn Windows features on or off”
• From the “Windows Features options”, select “Hyper-V”
• And reboot your machine.

or using PowerShell with the “Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature” cmdlet:

PS > Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All
Do you want to restart the computer to complete this operation now?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [?] Help (default is "Y"):

Path :
Online : True
RestartNeeded : True

After rebooting, you can check that Hyper-V is installed with the following command:

PS > Get-Command -Module Hyper-v

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Cmdlet          Add-VMAssignableDevice                             2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMDvdDrive                                     2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMFibreChannelHba                              2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMGpuPartitionAdapter                          2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMGroupMember                                  2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMHardDiskDrive                                2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMHostAssignableDevice                         2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMKeyStorageDrive                              2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMMigrationNetwork                             2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMNetworkAdapter                               2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMNetworkAdapterAcl                            2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMNetworkAdapterExtendedAcl                    2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMNetworkAdapterRoutingDomainMapping           2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMRemoteFx3dVideoAdapter                       2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMScsiController                               2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
Cmdlet          Add-VMStoragePath                                  2.0.0.0    Hyper-V
...

The Hyper-v PowerShell module is loaded!

 

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