Hyper-V - Don't lock when exiting the VM

[ShiBDiB]

So trying to get a hyper-v client to stay logged in when I close the window. Currently if I minimize the window it'll stay logged in indefinitely, but if I close the window to let it run in the background it will lock and have me at the user selection screen when I re-open it.

Any way to prevent this from happening? Client running Win11.

 

[Yttersta]

This is likely W11 locking itself than the hypervisor doing it. With VNC for instance, you can set the local server to lock the machine after the last user disconnects but hyper-v hasn't got a setting as such to adjust this behaviour afaik.

Edit: I just tried with an ubuntu server and a centos vm, both stay where I'd left them upon window close. No such locking action on these at least, but I haven't a windows vm to try right now.

 

[ShiBDiB]

This is likely W11 locking itself than the hypervisor doing it. With VNC for instance, you can set the local server to lock the machine after the last user disconnects but hyper-v hasn't got a setting as such to adjust this behaviour afaik.

Edit: I just tried with an ubuntu server and a centos vm, both stay where I'd left them upon window close. No such locking action on these at least, but I haven't a windows vm to try right now.

Kinda figured, I'll have to dig a little and see if I can find the win11 setting causing this

 

[Solaris17]

Odd. let me know if you find anything. My VMs do not do this but I run Windows server in production. I wonder if this is an added limitation to Windows 11 or Windows 11 in hyper-v itself. I might spin up a new VM later to take a look.

 

[Yttersta]

Odd. let me know if you find anything. My VMs do not do this but I run Windows server in production. I wonder if this is an added limitation to Windows 11 or Windows 11 in hyper-v itself. I might spin up a new VM later to take a look.

I just tried with a W11 VM and it did indeed went to the lock screen everytime I closed the window. So I tried the group policy setting to never display the lock screen and that didn't work either, weirdly, even though I didn't have a password/pin as well.

 

[Solaris17]

I just tried with a W11 VM and it did indeed went to the lock screen everytime I closed the window. So I tried the group policy setting to never display the lock screen and that didn't work either, weirdly, even though I didn't have a password/pin as well.

That should happen and happens on the servers as well. He is saying he is being logged OUT though, which is odd to me.

EDIT::

nvm he is using 2 different verbs to explain his issue.

to stay logged in when I close the window. Currently if I minimize the window it'll stay logged in indefinitely, but if I close the window to let it run in the background it will lock and have me at the user selection screen when I re-open it.

These mean two different things. 1 is intended and expected behavior (lock) the other is not intended or expected (logged out)

locking does not equal logging out

 

[ShiBDiB]

Sorry meant lock*. Wrote this before my first cup of coffee this morning