Last week I started digging into the basics of HyperV on Windows 10 and what I love is, that you can install the HyperV functionality from the PowerShell command line:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V –All
Afterwards, you have to setup networking for virtual machines. But networking is a little different than you may be used to if you have already setup VMware Workstation, Parallels or VirtualBox on your Mac or PC. Similar to data center hypervisors like VMware vSphere you have to setup a virtual switch and connect this virtual switch to a physical network card. Because laptops have two network interfaces typically - wired ethernet and wlan - you have to setup two different virtual switches and connect the virtual machine to the appropriate virtual switch. The virtual machine gets its own IP address on the physical network. A NATed configuration that is typically used on other desktop hypervisors, is not available. Maybe I can use internet connection sharing as a workaround. Beside this HyperV does not scale at all on high-dpi displays, and so you get a tiny window with nearly unreadable small fonts while installing an operating system on the virtual machine. When the installation is finished, I will use a remote access solution to circumvent this.
I'm going to start with a Windows 2016 TP3 virtual machine to try out some of the new container technology that is currently be developed by Microsoft and Docker.