Win 2012, Hyper-V, VM resolution question

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So I built a system using the following barebones pc with 16 gigs of ram and an i7 3370S. I put on Win 2012 server and setup Hyper-V with 3 VMs running on 4 gigs of ram each. Each VM resolution can only go up to 1600x1200 but the host machine can go up to 1920x1440. Is there a way to up the res of the VMs to go higher? If not why is it limited to the 1600x1200?







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Did you install the HyperV guest services or additions or whatever they are called on the VMs? Basically like VMware tools.
 
@OP, Hyper-V uses a virtual video card which has an 8MB limit last I checked. They might have upped it in Server 2012 but not sure. You can check yourself in the device manager.
Anyway, I believe this is the reason for your resolution limit.

If you want, you can buy a supported graphics card and give the Win 7 VM's access to it through RemoteFX and then you can run full HD videos inside the VM's. It's pretty cool.
 
HydroBudz said:
and you can't RDP to them?
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I meant to get back to you on this and just forgot. I have this system setup at an office that wont let outside connections in without a vpn (of their own), which they want to charge us $100 a month. At 12 systems currently and might add another 10 or more. So at $1k plus a month, just decided to go with the free logmein accounts setup for each desktop. The free logmeins work perfect for our needs.
 
$100 a month per login for VPN? You could buy an ASA and setup your own VPN for less than the cost of 1 month.
 
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