HyperV in WIndows 8

Setting up Hyper-V isn't that hard as Microsoft has lots of information on doing this.

A little prep work before installing any operating systems:

• You will need to enable virtualization technology in Bios on the HP ENVY TouchSmart Ultrabook 4t-1100, by default VT is disabled.
• You will also need to create a virtual switch using the Hyper-V Manager. Be sure to allow management operating system to share this network adapter when creating it.

With that done you will need to create a virtual machine for OpenBSD to live on.  I used the defaults for most things; such as 512M ram and a 10G hard drive.  Go ahead and delete the default network adapter listed, as it doesn't work in OpenBSD. Add the "Legacy Network Adapter" to take its place.  Under OpenBSD the legacy adapter will come up as de, - DEC DC21x4x (Tulip) 10/100 Ethernet device, and it works great.

Now do a normal install of OpenBSD 5.2. My CPU performance monitor didn't even spike above 15% while installing OpenBSD 5.2. Furthermore while installing I was able to browse the web, download some more ISOs, and watch some Epic Rap Battles (ERB). Ah, Bruce Lee vs Clint Eastwood, awesome.  After a few minutes you can start system and login.

Xorg works fine under hyper-v.  (CTRL + ALT + LEFT ARROW)  is the breakout key combo (or release key combination) to get back to your desktop.  Other key combination can be found Technet.

I plan on using my virtual machine as an always up and running unix system for coding and ssh. I'll create another system for Oracle 11g using Fedora 17 next.

Enjoy!