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Hyper-V Linux on Windows How-Tos
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Hyper-V How-Tos

Set up a Static IP for Hyper V guest OS

Motivation: to ssh to the VM without always figuring out what the VM's current IP is.

Windows' default switch dynamically assigns IP address to Hyper V Vms whenever Windows restarts.
To assign a static IP address to a VM, we need to set up an Internal Switch.

Steps:

  1. In Hyper V: Create an internal Switch

  2. In Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections
    Configure its IPv4 properties as follows:
    IP address: 192.168.0.2
    Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
    Default gateway: 192.168.0.1 // router

  3. Add the Switches to the VM. Your VM should have two network adapters: one Default and one Internal

  4. Log into the VM, configure Networking as follows:
    IPv4->Manual
    Address: 192.168.0.3
    Netmask: 255.255.255.0
    Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Now you should be able to ping to your VM on Windows with static IP 192.168.0.3

Add a new VM to existing Internal Switch

  1. In Hyper-V, add the Internal Switch to the VM
  2. In the VM, configure the switch as follows:
    IPv4->Manual
    Address: 192.168.0.4
    Netmask: 255.255.255.0
    Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Share files between guest and host OS

  1. On Linux guest: Set up samba server https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/samba/
  2. On Windows host: Add a network location following this guide

Give Guest OS access to WebCam

https://www.tenforums.com/virtualization/174394-how-add-webcam-windows-10-vm-hyper-v.html

  • Failed on Fedora 35

Upgrade OpenSSH on Windows

It fixes some weird issues (like cannot send Ctrl-<space> via ssh).

  1. uninstall the current one from Settings -> Optional features
  2. Install the latest version and update PATH following https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Install-Win32-OpenSSH

Turn on Enhanced Mode for a VM

  1. Open PowerShell Administrator
  2. Run Set-VM -VMName 'Your VM Name' -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket

VIM/NeoVIM Yank to Windows System clipboard from via SSH

  1. Install Xserver client [VcXSrv](https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
  2. Add to windows env variable: Name: DISPLAY, Value: localhost:0
  3. SSH to Linux with -Y: ssh -Y user@host
  4. Verify by checking if xcalc works
  5. Set VIM to yank to system clipboard
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