Hyper-V Manage 0.9.5

This is a pre-release. Every VM is made with the user name vmuser and password
vmadmin unless you choose others, and joins your network with Remote Desktop on, so choose
your own password on a network you share.

What's new in 0.9.5

• New Ubuntu Virtual Machine works from the installed app. In 0.9.4 it stopped at once with
  "The type name 'HashSet' could not be found". PowerShell was starting in the app's own folder,
  where .NET's copies of Windows' assemblies sent the build's small C# helpers to the wrong ones.
  Every PowerShell the app runs now starts in Windows' System32 folder instead, which also means
  nothing in the app's folder, which your account can write to, can be picked up by the
  PowerShell it runs as administrator.

New in 0.9.4: Ubuntu virtual machines

• New Ubuntu Virtual Machine (File menu, Ctrl+Shift+N). It builds an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
  desktop VM with no installer questions and the Orca screen reader on, then opens Remote
  Desktop straight to the desktop, with Orca already talking and its speech playing on your PC.
  There's no second sign-in. Give it a name, a user name and password, and its processors,
  memory and disk, as for Windows; Orca screen reader on from the start is checked to begin
  with.
  • Ubuntu is downloaded from ubuntu.com the first time, about 4 GB on an Arm PC and 6.5 GB on
    others. It's checked against Ubuntu's own checksums and kept for the next one. A download
    that stops partway carries on next time.
  • Hyper-V gives a VM no sound card, so the sound comes over Remote Desktop, as it does for
    Windows. Hyper-V's "enhanced session" for Linux is Remote Desktop too, but through a program
    Ubuntu's desktop no longer works with, so the VM uses GNOME's own Remote Desktop instead.
  • The Hyper-V console shows only Ubuntu's sign-in screen, and has no sound. Screenshot shows
    that screen without asking for a sign-in, and Run Windows OCR reads it, which helps if the
    install stalls.
  • The install takes 20 to 40 minutes, and the build says how far it has got every three
    minutes.
  • So far it has been built end to end on an Arm64 PC; x64 PCs take the same steps but haven't
    been tried yet.
• New Virtual Machine is now New Windows Virtual Machine, still on Ctrl+N.
• New-HyperVRdpVM.ps1 -Ubuntu does the same from the command line. See the script's
  README.

Download

• HyperVManage-Setup-x64.exe for Intel and AMD PCs, or HyperVManage-Setup-arm64.exe
  for Arm PCs, installs Hyper-V Manage for you, with a Start menu entry, and keeps it up to
  date: an update downloads while you use it and is installed when you close it, or straight
  away from Help, Check for Updates.
• HyperVManage-x64.exe or HyperVManage-arm64.exe is the same app as one program to
  run from anywhere, with nothing to install. It tells you when there's a new version, but
  doesn't update itself.
• The zip holds New-HyperVRdpVM.ps1, the script the app runs to build a VM, for the
  command line. Extract it and open Create VM.cmd.

It needs Windows 10 or 11 Pro, Enterprise or Education with Hyper-V turned on, and asks for
administrator rights when it starts. Everything is signed by "kelly ford"; Windows
SmartScreen may still ask about a new download until the publisher builds up reputation.

Found a problem? Help, Report a Bug. Read the README.