Now your Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection scales better, and squinting is a thing of the past.
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Place a manifest file beside the executable that you want Windows to scale properly and that’s it! HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\PreferExternalManifest=1 (DWORD value) So when connecting to my guests the windows looked like this:Īs you might suspect these small windows would cause you to squint quite a lot to see what is going on, an reading logfiles are near impossible… The FixĪfter drawing blank at my fellow deployment gurus I started trawling the internet for a solution, several days later after reading a lot of developer documentation on display scaling I finally found a solution!Īdd the following registry key to tell Windows to prefer external manifest files:
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This results in very small windows for operating systems that does not handle DPI scaling like some Linux distributions and to my great annoyance Windows PE!. Problem is that when using Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection to connect to the guests, it relies on the Guest OS to handle the display scaling within the OS itself.
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With a Xeon processor, 64GB ram and m12 Solid State drives I thought testing deployments would become a breeze… But what I found was that this new computer, which has a 4K display would give me quite a few headaches! Got myself a new mobile workstation (Lenovo P50), and was looking forward to be able to run my Hyper-V lab on this powerful beast.