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No. You cannot install hyper-v with win7 as a host.
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No. You cannot install hyper-v with win7 as a host.

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If you want to use Hyper-V on Windows 7.0 these are you options<br />
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1. Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro.<br />
2. Install VMware Workstation 12.0, and Create a Virtua Machine and the install Windows 2012/WIndows 8.0 and add the Hyper-V role.
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If you want to use Hyper-V on Windows 7.0 these are you options

1. Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro.
2. Install VMware Workstation 12.0, and Create a Virtua Machine and the install Windows 2012/WIndows 8.0 and add the Hyper-V role.

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Thank you for your quick respond. <br />
Dose the hose machine need to be window 8.1 pro and up, or can I do the same with a Virtual 8.1 pro and up Machine that is running in VMware, (install in this Virtual 8.1 pro and up Machine VMware Workstation, and Create a Virtual Machine Windows 2012?
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Thank you for your quick respond.
Dose the hose machine need to be window 8.1 pro and up, or can I do the same with a Virtual 8.1 pro and up Machine that is running in VMware, (install in this Virtual 8.1 pro and up Machine VMware Workstation, and Create a Virtual Machine Windows 2012?

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Thank you Mohammed for your respond. you mention VirtualBox, I am experiencing difficulty with VMware see <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28737798/change-network-setting-to-create-in-VMware-a-network.html" rel="ugc">WMware lab </a> would you be comfortable to recommend from VMware to &nbsp;VirtualBox? before I start building a hyper V environment my be should I switch.
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Thank you Mohammed for your respond. you mention VirtualBox, I am experiencing difficulty with VMware see WMware lab [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28737798/change-network-setting-to-create-in-VMware-a-network.html] would you be comfortable to recommend from VMware to  VirtualBox? before I start building a hyper V environment my be should I switch.

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In your scenario, I would and the worse that could happen is that if you are not happy, you could always remove it. I used to use VirtualBox until I went to windows8.
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In your scenario, I would and the worse that could happen is that if you are not happy, you could always remove it. I used to use VirtualBox until I went to windows8.

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Can I install hyper-v on a window 7 machine and install on top of it window machine same as I would do with VMware?
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Can I install hyper-v on a window 7 machine and install on top of it window machine same as I would do with VMware?

Install hyper-v on a window 7 machine

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

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.

Hyper-V

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

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 7 is an operating system from Microsoft. Features include multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements.