Hyper-V: Create shared folder between host and guest with internal network

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Share Files, Folders or Drives Between Host and Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Prerequisites

  1. Make sure you have a Pro or Enterprise version of the Windows OS. The Home version does not provide you with this functionality! From the official documentation:

The virtual machine must have Remote Desktop Services enabled, and run Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2012 R2 as the guest operating system.

  1. Ensure that Enhanced session mode settings are enabled on the Hyper-V host.

    Start Hyper-V Manager, and in the Actions section, select “Hyper-V Settings“.

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    Make sure that enhanced session mode is allowed in the Server section. Then, make sure that the enhanced session mode is available in the User section.

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  2. Enable Hyper-V Guest Services for your virtual machine

    Right-click on Virtual Machine > Settings. Select the Integration Services in the left-lower corner of the menu. Check Guest Service and click OK.

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Steps to share devices with Hyper-v virtual machine:

  1. Start a virtual machine and click Show Options in the pop-up windows.

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    Or click “Edit Session Settings…” in the Actions panel on the right

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    It may only appear when you’re (able to get) connected to it. If it doesn’t appear try Starting and then Connecting to the VM while paying close attention to the panel in the Hyper-V Manager.

  2. View local resources. Then, select the “More…” menu.

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  3. From there, you can choose which devices to share. Removable drives are especially useful for file sharing.

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  4. Choose to “Save my settings for future connections to this virtual machine“.

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  5. Click Connect. Drive sharing is now complete, and you will see the shared drive in this PC > Network Locations section of Windows Explorer after using the enhanced session mode to sigh to the VM. You should now be able to copy files from a physical machine and paste them into a virtual machine, and vice versa.

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Source (and for more info): Share Files, Folders or Drives Between Host and Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Drawbacks

  • While this solution is easy and probably works faster then when using internal network, it has its own drawback: the drive is mapped only while there is a connection via the VMConnect client. If you run a vm with some background services or you connect to it via RDP, this approach isn’t gonna work. (thanks @sich for pointing this out)

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