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Hyper-V specification and APIs documentation

Documentation for the top level functional specification and APIs for Hyper-V for developers.

Hyper-V top level functional specification

Overview

  • Top level functional specification overview

Reference

  • Data types
  • Feature discovery
  • Hypercalls
  • Partitions
  • Virtual processor

Reference

  • Virtual Memory Management Unit
  • Virtual Interrupt Controller
  • Inter-Partition Communication
  • Timers
  • Virtual Secure Mode
  • Nested virtualization

Hyper-V APIs

Overview

  • API overview

Reference

  • Hyper-V WMI provider
  • Management reference
  • Host Compute System API
  • Host Compute Network API
  • Windows Hypervisor Platform API Definitions
  • Virtual hard disk interface
  • Hypervisor Instruction Emulator API
  • VM Saved Dump Provider API

Hyper-V product documentation

Overview

  • Hyper-V documentation
  • Overview
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