Hyper-V VM Configuration: Generation, vCPU, Memory, and Integration Services (2026)

Hyper-V VM configuration settings guide showing generation, memory, and integration service decisions on Windows Server 2025

14 min readComplete Hyper-V VM configuration reference — Generation 1 vs 2, Secure Boot templates, Static vs Dynamic Memory, vCPU and NUMA sizing, integration services, and config version. Covers what breaks when each setting is wrong, with default recommendations by workload.