Figure 5.17 Changing the keyboard behavior when the keyboard is connected to a
virtual machine
For virtual machines, the exact actions available will depend on the current state of
the virtual machine. For example, the following actions are available for the Running
state: Turn Off (doesn’t gracefully shut down the guest operating system but is the
same as just powering off a physical machine), Shut Down (sends a request to the
guest operating system to perform a controlled shutdown, which is the same as
selecting Shutdown within the guest operating system), Save (saves the current state,
such as the memory and device state, to disk, allowing it to be resumed at a later
time), Pause (suspends activity in the VM), and Reset (which is like powering off the
VM and then starting it again). Options to connect to, move, export, checkpoint,
rename, and enable replication are all available.
While Hyper-V Manager exposes many capabilities and configurations, it is suited
only for a single host or a small number of hosts, because it doesn’t allow
configurations of multiple hosts in a single action. SCVMM provides the enterprise
management solution, which is covered in Chapter 9.