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You have to virtualize BOTH on one server - a VM with Essentials and a VM with the Terminal Server. &nbsp;You cannot (should not) run Hyper-V on the Essentials system directly. &nbsp;If you don't have a 2012 license, you can use the free hyper-V and a Windows 8 system to manage it (or third party apps like 5Nine or VTUtilities).
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You have to virtualize BOTH on one server - a VM with Essentials and a VM with the Terminal Server.  You cannot (should not) run Hyper-V on the Essentials system directly.  If you don't have a 2012 license, you can use the free hyper-V and a Windows 8 system to manage it (or third party apps like 5Nine or VTUtilities).

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Is the free hyper-v without a GUI? &nbsp;Do I run Hyper-v on a Win8 box or on its own one.
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Is the free hyper-v without a GUI?  Do I run Hyper-v on a Win8 box or on its own one.

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Thanks for your input Lee, it was most insightful!
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Thanks for your input Lee, it was most insightful!

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I have a 2012 Essentials Server with an &nbsp;2008 Server Terminal Server box on my network. &nbsp;I would like to Visualize the 2008 TS box and run it on the 2012 Server Essentials Box in Hyper-V. &nbsp;<br />
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Is this doable and how?<br />
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Thanks
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I have a 2012 Essentials Server with an  2008 Server Terminal Server box on my network.  I would like to Visualize the 2008 TS box and run it on the 2012 Server Essentials Box in Hyper-V.  

Is this doable and how?

Thanks

Hyper-V and 2012 Server Essentials

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes 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. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.