如何使用Hyper-V虚拟机

Hyper-V is a native hardware-assisted virtualization platform provided in Windows 8 Pro and Windows Server 2008 R2 and above. In essence, a Virtual Machine is a PC emulation running on your PC. You install VM software on your physical host machine, then boot up and install any number of guest OSs. Popular VM software includes VMware, VirtualBox and Microsoft Virtual PC (which was used to power XP Mode in Windows 7).

Hyper-V是Windows 8 Pro和Windows Server 2008 R2及更高版本中提供的本地硬件辅助虚拟化平台。 本质上，虚拟机是在您的PC上运行的PC仿真。 您可以在物理主机上安装VM软件，然后启动并安装任意数量的来宾OS。 流行的VM软件包括VMware ， VirtualBox和Microsoft Virtual PC(用于在Windows 7中为XP模式提供动力)。

VMs are essential for web developers:

虚拟机对于Web开发人员至关重要：

1. They allow you to test alternative browsers such as historical versions of IE or Linux installations.
   它们使您可以测试其他浏览器，例如IE或Linux安装的历史版本。
2. You can set up development servers such as Linux with Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Windows development PC.
   您可以在Windows开发PC上设置开发服务器，例如具有Apache，PHP和MySQL的Linux。

VMs are hard disk images so they can be backed-up, cloned and moved far easier than a real PC. In addition, most VM software allows you to make snapshots so you can test software or configurations and revert back in the event of catastrophic failure.

VM是硬盘映像，因此它们的备份，克隆和移动都比真实PC容易得多。 此外，大多数VM软件都允许您制作快照，以便您可以测试软件或配置并在发生灾难性故障时还原。

Hyper-V has a number of benefits including speed, multi-core processor support and booting to VMs (users can use a guest VM as their daily OS so they can’t trash the host). But the main advantage is that VMs operate in the background. There’s