You can connect to any of your Virtual Machines regardless of their state as long as you are working on a device that has a standard RDP connection.
The solution is easy to use and is very handy for your home lab environment. It will act as a console to your Virtual Machine. Even when that virtual machine has no network connection or not even an Operating System running on it. This free appliance gives you a virtual machine (CentOS based) that will act as an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) Proxy to any Virtual Machine running on your Hyper-V server. The solution? Allow me to introduce the newest free appliance from Veeam Labs! RDP Appliance for Hyper-V Server Or simply, what if you are running whatever operating system on whatever device that is NOT Windows 8.1? So what if you still have Windows 7 or even Windows XP and still want to see a VM running while it is installing? What if you want to run this solution in a developer environment but your developers are running Linux.
Microsoft offers Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for this but the downside is that you need Windows 8.1 to be able to run them. And one of the things you can’t do through PowerShell is having a virtual machine connection to your freshly created virtual machine. The Core version has a lot of advantages such as a smaller (attack) footprint, less patching and less resources needed but the downside is that it doesn’t have a GUI which means you need to administer your Hyper-V server remotely or through PowerShell. The difference? It’s free (the difference is the way you license the virtual machines on the host) and it comes in the Core version. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is a free hypervisor from Microsoft that delivers all the functionality of its “big brother” Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. And working in a team with people that discover and solve real-life IT problems is even better… Working in a team with amazing, passionate and smart people is always fantastic.