Configure Windows Hyper-v In Windows 8.1 Operating System

Click Start, navigate through control panel.



Click Programs



Under Program and features click Turn windows features on or off.



Enable Hyper-v and click OK.



Now its installing hyper-v feature on windows.



Click Restart now to enable hyper-v feature.



After successful restart windows features configured successfully.

Click Start, then search Hyper-V.



Now I am going to configure the virtual machine using Hyper-V.

Open Hyper-V Manager.

Click New, then Virtual Machine.





On this popup click next to create a virtual machine.



Provide the name for the virtual machine.

Click Generation 1 as default and click Next.



Provide the memory for the virtual machine “I assigned 2GB of RAM”.



Click Next.

Configuring Ethernet adapter.

Select the path for creating a virtual disk and provide the size of virtual harddisk.



Click next.

In installation option I selected “Install an operating system later”.



You can also select “Install operating system from bootable CD/DVD-ROM”.

Click next to complete the configuration.



So the virtual machine configured successfully.

You can use this windows feature @ free of cost instead of VMware.