Windows 10: Troubleshooting: "Cannot connect to virtual machine" error in Hyper-V Manager

Hello, I recently upgraded from Windows 11 Home to Pro because I wanted access to the extra security and virtualization features. I believe I have installed the optional Hyper-V feature correctly and virtualization is enabled in my BIOS. I was able to create a couple virtual Linux machines. I'm able to start them and they seem to run and even show a preview screen at the bottom of Hyper-V Manager. However, when I try to connect to the machine via the Hyper-V Manager GUI, I receive the following error: "Cannot connect to virtual machine. Please try again."I've searched online and in the Microso

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Where is the Hyper V Manager, How to I start it ?

I am trying to setup an XP virtual Machine on Windows 10 Pro.

I followed the steps in Neil Peterson article of 5/9/2016.

System Requirements - done - ok

Install Hyper-V - done - ok

Create a Virtual Switch - skip

Create a Virtual Machine

Create a Virtual Machine with Hyper-V Manager

These steps walk through how to manually create a virtual machine and deploy an operating system to this virtual machine.

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  In Hyper-V Manager, click Action > New >
  Virtual Machine to bring up the New
  

Uhhhhhhhhh - this step obviously implies one knows

1) Where the Hyper-V Manager is

2) How to start the Hyper-V Manager

Isn't that odd ?

 

Importing Virtual PC -> Hyper V

Thank you. I followed the instructions below, and when I go to hit the action menu to install Integration services, of course, there is no such option under the Action Menu. The instructions seem so simple but I'm still missing something...

Step 4: Install or upgrade integration services

Hyper-V includes a software package for supported guest operating systems that improves integration between the physical computer and the virtual machine. This package is referred to as integration services. To learn more, see Integration
Services.

This step can't be automated or done within a Windows PowerShell session.

To install integration services

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  Open Hyper-V Manager. From the Server Manager Tools menu, click Hyper-V Manager.
  
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  Connect to the virtual machine. Right-click the name of the virtual machine and click Connect.
  
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  From the Action menu of Virtual Machine Connection, click Insert Integration Services Setup Disk. This action loads the setup disk in the virtual DVD drive. Depending on the guest operating system installed, you may
  need to start the installation manually.
  
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  After the installation finishes, all integration services are available for use.
  

 

Hyper V not connecting to virtual machine

Suddenly, Hyper V would not connect to any Virtual Machine using the Virtual Machine Connection. I trying creating new VMs and nothing worked. I am using Windows 10 Education.