Hyper-V

Hyper-V

A Windows 10 Hyper-V guest virtual machine running inside a Windows 10 host
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	June 28, 2008; 16 years ago (June 28, 2008)
Operating system	Windows Server Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 (x64; Pro, Enterprise and Education)
Predecessor	Windows Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual Server
Type	Native hypervisor
License	Proprietary
Website	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows.^[1] Starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V superseded Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.