Is Hyper V Free With Windows 10

[Lida Rick]

DockerDesktop's functionality remains consistent on both WSL and Hyper-V, without a preference for either architecture. Hyper-V and WSL have their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on your specific set up and your planned use case.

Containers and images created with Docker Desktop are shared between alluser accounts on machines where it is installed. This is because all Windowsaccounts use the same VM to build and run containers. Note that it is not possible to share containers and images between user accounts when using the Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend.

Running Docker Desktop inside a VMware ESXi or Azure VM is supported for Docker Business customers.It requires enabling nested virtualization on the hypervisor first.For more information, seeRunning Docker Desktop in a VM or VDI environment.

From the Docker Desktop menu, you can toggle which daemon (Linux or Windows)the Docker CLI talks to. Select Switch to Windows containers to use Windowscontainers, or select Switch to Linux containers to use Linux containers(the default).

Getting Started with Windows Containers (Lab)shows you how to use theMusicStoreapplication with Windows containers. The MusicStore is a standard .NET application and,forked here to use containers, is a good example of a multi-container application.

If you set proxies or daemon configuration in Windows containers mode, theseapply only on Windows containers. If you switch back to Linux containers,proxies and daemon configurations return to what you had set for Linuxcontainers. Your Windows container settings are retained and become availableagain when you switch back.

--admin-settings: Automatically creates an admin-settings.json file which is used by admins to control certain Docker Desktop settings on client machines within their organization. For more information, see Settings Management.

--proxy-enable-kerberosntlm: Enables Kerberos and NTLM proxy authentication. If you are enabling this, ensure your proxy server is properly configured for Kerberos/NTLM authentication. Available with Docker Desktop 4.32 and later.

--always-run-service: After installation completes, starts com.docker.service and sets the service startup type to Automatic. This circumvents the need for administrator privileges, which are otherwise necessary to start com.docker.service. com.docker.service is required by Windows containers and Hyper-V backend.

As an IT administrator, you can use endpoint management (MDM) software to identify the number of Docker Desktop instances and their versions within your environment. This can provide accurate license reporting, help ensure your machines use the latest version of Docker Desktop, and enable you toenforce sign-in.

Hello all. Do you have any ideas why Windows does not allow me to uninstall Hyper-V? When I try to do so, I get an error saying: The changes couldn't be completed. Please reboot your computer and try again. Error

Installing and uninstalling Docker Desktop on Windows Home has left my machine unusable for use with VirtualBox because the hyper-v was not uninstalled properly. VirtualBox now complains VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE failed. Disable Hyper-V to run virtualization software - Windows Client Microsoft Docs describes how you determine hyper-v is running and how to disable it. I see from msinfo32.exe I have a hypervisor but because this is Windows Home I have no way to disable it. Docker Desktop should refuse to run on Windows Home rather than trashing it.

You can not enable WSL2 without enabling the Virtual Machine Platform. Even though the Virtual Machine Platform is not Hyper-V per se, it is still enough of Hyper-V under the hood to disturb other virtualization solutions. This is why newer VirtualBox and VMware Workstation versions provide a compatibility mode that can co-exist with Hyper-V, but has a performance penelty. I am running Vbox 6.1.26 and WSL2 side by side without any issues on Windows 10 21H1 Enterprise.

My understanding of this thread was that Docker for Windows was installed on Windows Home and when it is was found to conflict with other virtualization solution it was uninstalled. The hypothesis was that it left left hyper-v installed but there was some confusion about the services for the lightweight hypervisor which may have confused things.

So I was trying to further the hypothesis that full hyper-v was left installed by Docker for Windows as evidenced by the fact that VirtualBox started complained about a hyper-v being present immediately after installing and uninstalling Docker for Window. Other threads indicate the only solution to fixing having installed and uninstalling Docker for Windows on Windows Home is to reinstall Windows. Unfortunately re-installing VirtualBox did not solve the problem. I have moved on to another machine so it is not an immediate problem for me but still feel there may be an outstanding issue with trying to run Docker for Windows on Windows Home or at least uninstalling it.

BTW in my case I never actually installed WSL2 kernel package. I decided after installing Docker for Windows and then realizing that it also needed WSL2 that I would just use a different machine and so uninstalled Docker.

So all I am saying is that if installing and uninstalling Docker for Windows on Windows Home leaves Windows home in a state where it cannot run Virtual Box that is still a problem in search of a solution. Certainly an edge case but not clear what happens if you end up in that situation.

So I was trying to further the hypothesis that full hyper-v was left installed by Docker for Windows as evidenced by the fact that VirtualBox started complained about a hyper-v being present immediately

I am quite sure that I used WSL2 and Virtualbox side by side on my private laptop as well, which until recently did run Win10 and now runs Win11. And like I wrote I do run WSL2 + VBox on Win10 Enterprise without issue - the full hyper-v feature is also not enabled. Is it possible the virtualization settings are not enabled in your bios?

I'm running the Insider Preview version of Server 2022 in my lab on Hyper-V 2022 with Desktop Experience. But I expect that it will also work in the Core version. So I don't expect them to remove that in the final release.

Yes, there is a Windows Server 2022 Essentials edition. Some minor changes to pricing and channels, announcements coming very soon.

Our strategic direction for a hypervisor platform is with Azure Stack HCI, it is a purpose built solution hybrid infrastructure for running virtual machines. We recently extended the AzS HCI free trial period from 30 to 60 days, to provide a platform for test / eval.

Thanks!

Elden

We innovated sconfig, and it is true that it now has dependencies on PowerShell. The new sconfig is in AzS HCI, Windows Server 2022 core, and if we had shipped a Hyper-V Server 2022 it would have been in there as well. So it wouldn't have been a differentiator per se.

I'm curious why you want to remove PowerShell, as that obviously has some major management trade-off's?? I'm assuming your goal is more about .NET'less? Would love to better understand the scenario / goals. Are your feelings different about .NET Core with PowerShell7?

Can you elaborate on your footprint feedback? Disk drives for the boot device are plenty big these days... which value is important to you? We have lots of room to further optimize the composition of AzS HCI... but I want to understand what's most important to you.

One of our very intentional goals with AzS HCI was for it to be familiar and love current Hyper-V admin's. That's why it uses the same tools and management experience... such as PowerShell, Windows Admin Center, and all the existing MMC tools work as well (Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-V Manager, etc...). For a customer that doesn't desire Azure, they can use AzS HCI as they are using Hyper-V today (in WS or Hyper-V Server). The only difference is that it's a subscription model. For those looking to augment on-prem with hybrid capabilities, we provide the Azure integration to enhance AzS HCI... and with a goal that it's just incremental on top of a Hyper-V admin's existing skillset. But it's your choice if you want hybrid capabilities or not.

The 60-day free trail with AzS HCI is a little different than an Evaluation with a perpetual license. Eval is a special product that is time-bombed and can only be used for a period of time before you must move to a licensed product. The free trial gives the first 60-days as free for all subscriptions, so that's a value you can take advantage of for production deployments as well. So some trade-off's. AzS HCI also charges based on core usage to scale down for SMB customers.

Hyper-V Server and Windows Server Datacenter are the licensing inverses of each other, where Hyper-V Server provided a free host OS and required the guest OS's be independently licensed. Where Datacenter is a purchased license and the guest OS's are free. With that said, I'm curious how you were licensing the guest OS's on Hyper-V Server? Windows Server Standard is also an option for SMB customers (with VM limits).

Yeah, I understand that. The new sconfig certainly is better than the 2016 one. Even though I'd prefer it clickable (and winlogon too) since user32 is still present, even on the most stripped down installation. But I guess you don't want to close the door to bringing back something like Nano Server on bare metal ...which would be awesome IMHO.

This is actually somewhat tangential to Hyper-V Server, but: A significant portion of our (as a company) projects are in telco domain. One of our largest partnership involved mixed proprietary communications routed and processed on a proprietary hardware. The specs of the hardware were well under the officially supported Windows Server minimum, e.g. 4 GB of disk space, so we properly stripped down the OS.

If you are asking why Server SKU and not IoT Enterprise LTSC, then basically the latter wouldn't fit, and the partner had procured Telco SKU licenses. We've even deployed some as the aforementioned Nano Server 2016, but that wasn't usually possible due to various driver incompatibilities, and even then we reverted most due to partner being uncertain if the licensing applied properly.

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