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Hyper-V doesn't support modern resolutions (not even 1080p). I've been using Virtualbox, which has its own issues (the client machines can't always see the virtual monitor's resolution), but has been adequate.

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For a Hyper-V Windows client, you should be using Remote Desktop. The Hyper-V desktop client is really designed for simple installtion & management. For other OSs, I'd imagine installing a native client (ssh/X) on the host would be a better experience.

I haven't tried it, but I would be very surprised if playing 1080p video over ssh/X was watchable. My initial plan was just to use Windows 8 for games and do all my other computing inside an Ubuntu VM, but the Windows 8 environment (other than for command line stuff) is really growing on me. Currently I only use the VM for banking and shopping, which I'm still (perhaps unjustly) afraid to use a Windows machine for.

> Currently I only use the VM for banking and shopping, which I'm still (perhaps unjustly) afraid to use a Windows machine for.

Definitely unjustly.

Windows 8 has far better security mitigations than a base Ubuntu install.

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