Create shortcut to virtual machine


The most practical and useful thing for a user is to find what they are looking for quickly and easily. That is why I will show the steps to create a shortcut to a virtual machine in Hyper-V.

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First we must go to our Hyper-V virtual machine manager and obtain the name of the desired virtual machine (Ubuntu, in this case):

We go to the Windows desktop, right click > New > Create shortcut:

We add the following file location:

vmconnect.exe localhost "Ubuntu"
  • The program name is vmconnect.exe
  • localhost because this is our local virtual machine
  • Ubuntu is the name of the virtual machine

We put a descriptive name to our shortcut:

We will see the shortcut created on the desktop:

Finally, we test the shortcut:

Happy virtualization!


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