This blog will show you my self built PowerShell based Hyper-V Manager for my work laptop. I work as an IT consultant at Advantive. During my work I do have the need for testing things on virtual machines running Windows Server or Windows 10/11 client OS.
The built in Hyper-V works perfect for this. It only lacks an easy way of deploying templates of Windows OS images. Therefore I created a PowerShell based Hyper-V Manager that does exactly this. The script works on Windows 11, but should also work on Windows 10 or even Windows Server.
Download the script from this link: LocalHyperVManager_v20241201.zip
Features of my solution:
- Save disk space due to VHDX differential disks.
- Deploy new Windows based VM with default size and default settings in just a minute.
- Allow connectivity from Hyper-V host to VM with an Internal Network, for example to use RDP to enter the VM.