When you install a Hyper-V host, it has level of Integration Services that is available for use on the host. The same goes for a base operating system.

Keep in mind that this technique does not actually install Hyper-V onto your machine. It only installs the Hyper-V Manager and the Hyper-V PowerShell Module.

In this article, I'll walk you through my experience installing and using Quick Create to install Ubuntu on my Windows 10 system.

If you are just starting to dabble with Windows Server 2012 and specifically with Hyper-V 3.0, you may find it a bit confusing since there are three different ways of installing the Hyper-V role.

If I install Hyper-V Server 2008 (or Windows 2008 Server Core) then I lose the ability to use this tool.