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The thread discusses whether Hyper-V can be used for hardware testing, specifically focusing on passthrough of PCIe devices and direct disk access. The original poster asks if such hardware, like PCIe devices, can be detected or used directly in a Hyper-V guest. Respondents confirm that Hyper-V supports passthrough of certain hardware components, including disks, USB, and potentially graphics cards, but do not explicitly confirm PCIe device passthrough, suggesting some limitations. Overall, the conversation indicates that while hardware passthrough is possible in Hyper-V, the specifics depend on the device type.
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Hi!

AFAIK Hyper-V is bare virtualization without using OS like host. This is difference between VMware or VirtualBox.
I need for testing physical hardware for several purposes like hardware driver doesn't work in new update and in previous was working.
Instead installing secondary OS I want to test driver or other hardware in Hyper-V.

Is possible to use for example PCIe device to detect in guest?
Or for some reasons some hardware working in very old versions. Here's also Q - is possible to allow direct disk access?

Thank you for each help, reply, suggestion or comment.
Miro
 

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All hypervisors rely on an OS VMware ESX is an OS, but fairly minimal to allow more resources for virtualization. Hyper-v and VMWare ESX are referred to as type 1 hyper visors where as VMware player or Virtual box are type 2 (applications that sit on an OS)

You can allow access to different hardware devices to the guest OSes. You can also do pass-thru disk access in Hyper-V.
As an example for Server 2012R2 Migrate Pass-Through Disk Storage by Using Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2
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All hypervisors rely on an OS VMware ESX is an OS, but fairly minimal to allow more resources for virtualization. Hyper-v and VMWare ESX are referred to as type 1 hyper visors where as VMware player or Virtual box are type 2 (applications that sit on an OS)

You can allow access to different hardware devices to the guest OSes. You can also do pass-thru disk access in Hyper-V.
As an example for Server 2012R2 Migrate Pass-Through Disk Storage by Using Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2
 

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Ok, what with devices like PCIe or other connected, except USB and similar?

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You can pass-thru storage, USB and graphics cards possibly others I don't work with Hyper-V a lot.
 

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