A graphical Hyper-V management tool that exposes the advanced side of Hyper-V through a modern desktop UI, so users don't have to hand-type PowerShell for every knob.
Built on WPF + WPF-UI, targeting net8.0-windows, works on both win-x64 and win-arm64.
- CPU (vCPU) — cores / reserve / limit / weight, host resource protection, nested virtualization, migration compatibility, legacy-system compatibility, VM SMT, PMU / LBR / PEBS / IPT exposure, custom CPU name, CPU pinning, APIC mode, L3 ways & distribution, SLAT page shattering, EPP / frequency cap-floor-target, CCX-per-socket & processors-per-L3, Intel TDX / AMD SEV-SNP confidential-compute.
- Memory — startup / weight / dynamic memory, page size (4K / 2M / 1G), memory encryption (SEV / TDX), mapping mode, access-monitoring granularity, Intel SGX enclaves, NUMA block limits, dynamic-adjust stride, CXL support and GPA pinning.
- Storage — VHD / VHDX / ISO plus offline physical disk/optical pass-through, auto slot allocation across IDE / SCSI controllers, dynamic / fixed / differencing disks with 512n / 512e / 4kn sector formats, on-the-fly ISO packaging via IMAPI2.
- GPU-PV — one-click GPU partitioning, MMIO auto-tuning + write-combining, Windows driver injection (with minimal NVIDIA
nvlddmkmservice tree) and Linux SSH-driven driver install for Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 kernels. Per-partition 3D / Copy / VideoEncode / VideoDecode utilization monitor. - Console — MsRdpEx-based RDP console over
127.0.0.1, both Basic Session (VMBus, pre-boot) and Enhanced Session (RDP, clipboard / audio / resolution), fullscreen,Ctrl+Alt+Delinjection. - Network — bridged / NAT (with ICS) / no-upstream switch modes, VLAN access / trunk / private (isolated / community / promiscuous), QoS min/max bandwidth, SR-IOV / VMQ / IPsec offload, MAC-spoof / DHCP-guard / router-guard / port-mirroring / storm threshold.
- Boot — reorderable boot entries for Gen1 and UEFI-backed Gen2 (SCSI HDD / DVD / PXE / Windows Boot Manager), persisted through the
.vmgsNVRAM image. - Spacetime (Checkpoints) — tree view of the checkpoint timeline; continuous (standard) and static (production) snapshots; jump / merge / delete; wormhole to mount a snapshot's disk into the live VM without switching.
- PCIe pass-through (DDA) — device inventory with host / dismounted / virtual state, non-Server "ServerNT" identifier switch for supported Windows SKUs, GPU + FLR + physical-display-output compatibility notes baked in.
- Virtual Switch — topology view of external / internal / private switches, remapped as Bridged / NAT / No-Upstream, with Default Switch treated separately.
- USB pass-through — VMBus + USBIP forwarding (via
usbipd-winon the host andusbip-win2inside the guest), no network setup required. - Hyper-V on ARM — Snapdragon 8cx-and-up support, with MMIO layout tuned for 36-bit physical addressing (Gen3). Known limits: ARM64 guests only, no nested virtualization, no DDA, Gen2 only.
Bilingual UI (English + Simplified Chinese), auto light / dark theme.
Screenshots live under img/ — 01.png is the main window, 02.png–12.png cover the per-feature panels.
Grab the latest build from this repository's Releases page and run HV.exe (or the equivalent binary) directly. No installer, no service.
Requirements:
- Visual Studio 2022 (or later) with the .NET desktop development workload — or a standalone .NET 8 SDK.
- Windows 10 (Build 17134+) / 11 / Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025 as the host.
- Hyper-V role enabled:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All
Build:
cd src
dotnet buildPublish a single-file binary for both architectures:
cd src
msbuild ExHyperV.csproj /t:PublishAllArchitecturesOutput lands in src/bin/publish-all/{win-x64,win-arm64}/.
The doc/ folder contains focused deep-dives:
Linux.md— Linux guest GPU-PV bring-up (Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04, dxgkrnl, CUDA, Mesa/Vulkan).cpu-migration-compatibility.md— which CPU features get masked when the "Migration Compatibility" bit is toggled.drivermapping.md— how the Windows GPU-PV driver-file symlinking works inside the guest'sSystem32.
| Vendor | Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | RTX 40 series, RTX 20 series, GTX 10 series, Tesla P100 | Full DX12 / OpenGL / Vulkan / Codec / CUDA. |
| Nvidia | GT 210 (Tesla), Tesla V100 | Not supported / crashes host. |
| Intel | Xe / Xe-HPG, UHD 730 | DX12 / OpenGL / Vulkan / Codec OK; hardware-ID identification incomplete; no CUDA path. |
| Intel | HD Graphics 5xx / older | Not supported. |
| AMD | RX 5500 XT (RDNA1) | Full stack. |
| AMD | Vega 3, Radeon 8060S | Works but incomplete hardware ID. |
| AMD | Radeon 890M (RDNA 3.5) | Boot crashes host. |
| Qualcomm | Adreno 8cx Gen 3 / X1-85 / X2-90 | Works; incomplete hardware ID. |
Works on Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025 (and on select non-Server SKUs via the built-in ServerNT toggle). Requires IOMMU / VT-d enabled in firmware. Nvidia consumer + workstation cards generally boot and reset cleanly; Intel Arc / AMD RDNA hit Code 43 at driver load in a VM; on-board integrated graphics generally cannot be passed through.
| Windows build | WDDM | Notable change |
|---|---|---|
| 17134 | 2.4 | GPU-PV introduced. |
| 19041 | 2.7 | Guest sees the correct GPU model. |
| 20348 | 2.9 | Linux / WSL2 GPU-PV. |
| 22000 | 3.0 | DMA remap, larger GPU memory ceiling. |
| 22621 | 3.1 | UMD/KMD memory sharing. |
| 26100 | 3.2 | GPU perf counters in guest Task Manager, GPU live-migration. |
GPU-PV assigns a render device; a display device still needs to exist. Three options:
- Microsoft Hyper-V Video (default) — max 1080p @ ~60 Hz.
- Virtual Display Driver + streaming (recommended) — install Virtual-Display-Driver, pair Sunshine/Moonlight (or Parsec) inside the guest and connect with all local remote desktops closed. High resolution + high refresh + audio.
- USB display adapter + GPU-PV — pass through a USB controller, plug in a DisplayLink / SM768-based adapter as the physical display device.
- Host: install
usbipd-win. - Guest: install
usbip-win2, then run theUSBProxy.exeguest agent bundled in the release.
Currently the tool needs to stay open to keep the USB link alive; a background service is on the roadmap.
- .NET 8.0 desktop runtime (bundled in single-file publishes).
- Hyper-V role enabled on the host.
- Windows 10 Pro / Enterprise / Education (Build 17134+), Windows 11 Pro / Enterprise, or Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025. Home editions do not ship the Hyper-V role.
- For confidential-compute, GPU-PV and PCIe pass-through features: matching CPU + firmware support (VT-x/AMD-V, IOMMU/VT-d, SEV-SNP / TDX / SGX).
Released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.