The great news is that it’s now possible to access a Hyper-V console from Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. FreeRDP is without any doubt one of the most promising open source projects in terms of interoperability with the Microsoft world with a great developers team behind it. Microsoft opened up their RDP protocol, including the extensions required by Hyper-V, which led to having FreeRDP implementing it. Hyper-V console access is based on an extension of the RDP protocol, which is implemented in the Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client control (mstscax.dll) used by vmconnect and by the RDP client itself (mstsc.exe). ![]() ![]() There are unfortunately quite a few limitations in this approach, including the fact that is not available on the Hyper-V host itself or on other operating systems. Accessing Microsoft’s Hyper-V console is typically performed by running Hyper-V Manager / vmconnect on a Windows Server host or Windows 7 / 8 equipped with RSAT.
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