Hyper-V VMs from NFS?

Can you run Hyper-V VMs from NFS? Why would you?

John Savill

April 16, 2017

1 Min Read
Hyper-V VMs from NFS?

Q. Can Hyper-V run VMs from an NFS share?

A. No. While Windows Server has an NFS Server component (to enable it to provide services to NFS clients) and a NFS Client component to access NFS shares, it is not possible to run most services from NFS shares which includes Hyper-V VMs.

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