Just set up my first Virtual Machines, Virtual Hard Disks, and Virtual Switches on Client Hyper-v on Windows 8 yesterday. Actually found it relatively easy. I have an SSD for my Windows 8 system disk, and another one I just put in for VHDs. Didn't realize until yesterday that there are actually 2 separate files - the virtual machine file, and the virtual hard disk associated with it. I set up my Hyper-v default to store them both on the separate SSD, not on the system disk, but it occurs to me now that it might be best to keep the virtual machine file on the system disk. Are there any best practices for this?
My next step is to install an actual OS on the VMs I've created. My primary reason for this whole undertaking is to run WHS 11 virtually, but I might play with another OS first, as I can delete it after my trial and error is done (but I guess the same is true if something goes wrong with my WHS installation, too). I assume installation is the same as with a physical machine - the VM will have access to the DVD drive and USB ports by default, or are those something I need to add to the VM, as with the VHD, network connection, processor, memory, etc?
My next step is to install an actual OS on the VMs I've created. My primary reason for this whole undertaking is to run WHS 11 virtually, but I might play with another OS first, as I can delete it after my trial and error is done (but I guess the same is true if something goes wrong with my WHS installation, too). I assume installation is the same as with a physical machine - the VM will have access to the DVD drive and USB ports by default, or are those something I need to add to the VM, as with the VHD, network connection, processor, memory, etc?