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Hyper-V VM and Side-by-Side Stack Listener
I've successfully registered a windows 10 enterprise VM hosted on-prem with my AVD host pool but I'm having issues with the SxS Network Stack.
Upgrade components seem to work out fine and no errors after RD Agent components upgrade. But the SxS Stack Listener does not show when running qwinsta.exe in PowerShell. I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times while confirming registry values are what they need to be per the troubleshooting guides (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/troubleshoot-vm-configuration#troubleshooting-issues-with-the-azure-virtual-desktop-side-by-side-stack).
Is this just a matter of the AVD session host components not meant to work outside of desktops hosted directly in ARM? The FAQ doesn't explicitly state that desktops hosted outside of Azure shouldn't work. If there is supporting documentation on why this should not work, it would be great to have it public.
- Do you consider Hyper-V to equal cloud? AVD runs only in the cloud (or hybrid cloud if you consider Azure Stack HCI).
- Azure hypervisor system is technically based on Hyper-V. Link here explains this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/hypervisor
Microsoft doesn't explicitly state why a VM separate from Azure or Azure Stack won't work. Just would like some documentation, is all.- I would say there is more that just its based on. There were design decision in AVD that will not allow it to work.
