Create virtual machine in Windows 8 and windows 10 then install Linux Mint OS

Hyper-V (Hypervisor), virtual machine management services, is part of Window 8 and Windows 10 operating system. But this service is not enabled/installed by default. In order to install or enable virtual machine management services in windows 8/10, we need follow below steps

1.     First we need to enable virtual technology hardware at processor level by accessing BIOS steps

• BIOS is basic input output system. BIOS configuration defines operating system behavior.
• In order to access BIOS, we need to restart the computer from  “settings à change pc settings à update and recovery à recovery  à Advanced Startup (and restart now) à troubleshoot à Advanced options à startup settings….. then when it’s being restarted, keep enter pressed
• Once BIOS is open, you can enable virtual technology from configuration tab

2.     Once VT is enabled from BIOS, go to add/remove programs in the control panel, and click “turn windows features on or off” and select all Hyper-V options and click on. It will install Hyper-V

3.     From Hyper-V manager , you can create new virtual machine and select install OS later while creating virtual machine

4.     Download linux mint iso file from https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

5.     Then start the virtual machine from Hyper-V manager and choose the ISO file for OS installation and follow the installation steps.

6.     OpenSuse can be installed after downloading ISO file. But we need a network connection from virtual machine for this installation. In order to establish the network connection from virtual machine, create virtual external switch using virtual switch manger and share the external virtual switch while creating the virtual machine

Now connecting this virtual machine unix box from host putty session

1.     Check virtual machine  unix box ip address

Ip add show

à eth0: this is the network name in which inet ip address is the ip address we are looking for

2.     Using the above ip address we can connect via putty using SSH connection type. But before this we need to install SSH in the guest linux OS (in virtual machine). We can do this using “sudo apt-get install openssh-server” command

3.     Once SSH is installed, we need to open the port 22. (this can be done by editing file “sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config” and un comment 22 port).. then stop and start the ssh service as “sudo /sbin/service  sshd stop” and “sudo /sbin/service  sshd start”

4.     Check if SSH is enabled and running using the command “netstat –lnpt | grep 22”

5.     You can test if SSH is working fine by running “ssh <vm ip>” in virtual machine itself

6.     If any issues in order to establish SSH connection from host computer to hyper-v virtual machine, we need to configure virtual machine with static ip. To do this, open YaST control center and go to SYSTEMà NETWORK SETTINGS, then in overview tab edit the ip address as static and give some ip address. Then give this same ip address as default IP4v gateway in routing tab. This will cause internet connection not working in virtual machine, but enable SSH connection from host to virtual machine.

7.     Once successfully connected using ip via SSH connection, revert the static ip to dynamic using the YaST control center. This time both internet and putty SSH connection will work.