Deploy RC-Scanner in Hyper-V

^{Last updated:}^2026-08-11

Purpose

This article describes how to deploy RC-Scanner as a virtual appliance in Microsoft Hyper-V. It covers virtual machine creation, RC-Scanner ISO configuration, Secure Boot settings, installation, and access to the deployed scanner.

Introduction

This guide walks you through deploying RC-Scanner as a virtual appliance on Microsoft Hyper-V. We supports both Generation 1 (BIOS) and Generation 2 (UEFI) virtual machines. However, we strongly recommend Generation 2.

The deployment process takes approximately 15-20 minutes and consists of three main steps:

Creating a Hyper-V virtual machine
Booting from the RC-Scanner ISO image
Running the bootstrap configuration

Prerequisites

Downloading the RC-Scanner ISO

Refer to Installation Overview for how to download the RC-Scanner ISO image.

System requirements

Please make sure that your VM in Hyper-V meet the system requirements. For more information, refer to Deploy/Install RC-Scanner Appliance

Creating the VM

Open your Hyper-V Manager, select New → Virtual Machine

0.hyper-v.png — Create a new virtual machine in Hyper-V

Specify the VM name, and specify Generation 2 for the VM

1.hyper-v.png — Specify Generation 2 for VM

Assign memory and configure networking for the VM

Make sure that the VM has enough disk space

4.hyper-v.png — Create Virtual Hard Disk

With Installation Options, we select the downloaded ISO image from Portal as the bootable image source

5.hyper-v.png — Select the RC-Scanner ISO image

We finish the Wizard, a new VM will be created. However, we still need to configure the secure boot properly, if not we’ll not be able to boot using our ISO image

Press right click to our newly created VM → Settings, then configure the Secure Boot template using Microsoft UEFI Certificate Authority, then press OK

Press Start to boot the VM, then press Connect to open the VM window

The installation process should happens automatically after we started the VM

After the installation finished, the VM will shutdown, and we have to press Start, then Connect again.

9.hyper-v.png — VM shuts down after installation

10.hyper-v.png — Attempt to Start and Connect

Installation

Refer to Installation Overview for details about the installation

SSH into the machine

First, retrieve the IP of the VM:

Get-VM | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | Select-Object VMName, IPAddresses

Note: You might need to open Powershell as Admin to run the above command

Then SSH into the machine to continue the bootstrap process