Interested in Hyper-V on Windows 8? Then you might be interested in the "Client Hyper-V Survival Guide"

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"Client Hyper-V is the name for the Hyper-V technology running on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. This Building Windows 8 blog post explains Client Hyper-V. Read more about Windows Server 8 Beta and Hyper-V on the Windows Server Team Blog.

Client Hyper-V requires SLAT-capable CPUs. For help determining if your machine supports SLAT, see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1401.aspx
This survival Guide wiki topic explains the hardware requirements, usage scenarios, and installation procedures for Client Hyper-V in Windows 8.

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V

Client Hyper-V is the same computer virtualization technology previously available in Windows Server. In Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the technology is now built into the non-server version of Windows, often called the “desktop” version because it does not run on server-class hardware. A similar functionality in Windows 7 is called XP Mode with Virtual PC and is available as free download (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx  ). The free server version of the Hyper-V technology is called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and is available for download (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd776191.aspx  ). Client Hyper-V provides the same virtualization capabilities as Hyper-V in Windows Server 8. IT professionals, developers, teachers, learners and security researchers will welcome the capabilities available in the past only when running the Windows Server operating system on desktop machines.

For more information see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx  and http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-455T 

To understand the architecture of Hyper-V watch this short video http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=2688

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For the geeks-in-the-know, Hyper-V on Windows 8 is going to be one of the killer features and reasons for upgrade (i.e. no more Win Server on our notebooks... :)