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The panel running along the left hand side of the Hyper-V Manager window contains a list of Hyper-V servers which that are available for administration. By default the local server will be listed, although remote Hyper-V servers may also be added to the list and managed from this Hyper-V Manager instance by right clicking on the ''Hyper-V Manager'' item in this panel and selecting ''Connect to Server...''. When selected, this menu option will display the ''Select Computer'' dialog. From this dialog it is possible to select the local system (if it is not already listed) or to browse the network to find other remote Hyper-V servers:
Once connections to remote servers running Hyper-V are established, they will appear in the list along with the local system. Servers may be removed from the list by selecting the server from the list and clicking on the ''Remove Server'' link in the ''Actions'' panel on the right hand side of the Hyper-V Manager window.
The central panel is divided into three sub-panels. The top panel provides a list of virtual machines which that are configured on the server which is currently selected in the right hand panel. The list contains the name of the virtual machine together with CPU usage, uptime and operations information. When a virtual machine is selected from the list, a collection of actions for that virtual machine will appear in the right hand ''Actions'' panel. The same list of virtual machine specific commands may also be accessed from a popup menu by right clicking on the VM from the list. In order to view the console of a running virtual machine, select the ''Connect...'' action option. Another, quicker way to display the console for a virtual machine is to simply double click on the entry in the list. Once selected, the ''Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection'' tool will appear displaying the console for the virtual machine.
The following figure shows the console for a virtual machine that is in the process of installing Windows Server 2008 as a guest operating system:
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Most operating systems and applications have keyboard control sequences which that have special meaning when pressed. The issue when running virtual machines on a system is that a decision needs to be made about whether the keyboard control sequences should be addressed by the host, or passed to the guest operating system running in the currently selected Virtual Machine Connection window. This setting allows a choice to be made to have all control sequences handled by the host, always by the virtual machine or only by the virtual machine only if the corresponding Virtual Machine Connection window is in full Screen mode.
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