Running Windows Virtual Machines on Hyper-V

Horizon 8 supports virtual machines running on Hyper-V hypervisor version Hyper-V Server 2016 and Hyper-V Server 2019.

The following operating systems are supported:

• VDI: Windows 10 21H2 64-bit, Windows 10 22H2 64-bit, Windows 11 21H2 64-bit, Windows 11 22H2 64-bit
• RDS Hosts: Windows Server 2016 Standard 64-bit, Windows Server 2019 (Hyper-V Server 2016, Hyper-V Server 2019), Windows Server 2022 (Hyper-V Server 2019), and Windows Server 2025 as a guest OS (Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 or later)

Running Horizon Agent in virtual machines on Hyper-V has the following limitations and known issues:

• Horizon Agent installation in Desktop mode is not supported on Windows Server OS.

• When you click the CAD button on the Hyper-V console, the CAD window also displays on the remote desktop session.

• Hyper-V does not support GPU-related features: vGPU, 3D RDSH, HEVC.

  Note: Hyper-V based virtual machines can directly leverage GPU capability available to the Horizon Agent operating system. Verify the graphics support with the third-party virtualization platform vendor (Microsoft).