Best practices for installing Win 10 under Hyper-V on Server 2012R2 host

Yeah, yeah, I know I could probably get my answers after spending 10 hours reading hundreds of isolated threads here.  I've already put in about 2 hours, and I'm exhausted.  Plus, this site does not have a very sophisticated search function.
I want to install Win10 as a VM on my Server 2012R2 machine.  I am not currently hosting any other VMs, so my first decision was whether to try it using Hyper-V or VirtualBox.  I started with VirtualBox, but I ran into two problems: networking
and video.  Also, VirtualBox itself seems to have some issues with failing to install the extension pack.  So now I think I'll give Hyper-V a shot.
I found some blog posts from last year providing guidance on setting up Hyper-V for Win10, but given the rate of change of this beta OS, I expect there are many new "features" that can be mitigated against by specific settings on the VM.
Some specific questions:
1. Generation 1 or Generation 2 in the Hyper-V setup?  The blogs I've seen say to use Gen1, but provide no justification.  Perhaps because they are using Win8 as the host?  I am using 2012R2.
2. Does the Win10 ISO file need to be continually available to the VM, or is it only used in the initial installation?
3. How do I get the VM to access the GPU card, which has lots of memory, over the useless onboard video chip which only has 8MB and no 3D instruction set?  This was a dealbreaker with VirtualBox.
4. I anticipate many issues with networking, but I'll start with this: I have dual onboard NICs going into a managed switch.  Should I just give one physical NIC to the VM and let the host have the other?  I think I'm going to have some issues
with DHCP IP address assignment, but we'll see.  Any best practices here would be helpful.
Thanks.

>1.
I'd use Gen 1, that is a BIOS type boot, but that's just because I've had
less trouble than with Gen2 VM's.
>2.
Only during install, refresh, reset, or sfc.
>3.
No virtualization solution does it easily, but there is RemoteFX if you can
get a Windows 10 client to use it.  I've never tried.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16652.remotefx-vgpu-setup-and-configuration-guide-for-windows-server-2012.aspx
>4.
That's what I would do (assigning one NIC to the VM, and one the host).  If
both are receiving an IP address right now from DHCP, they will continue to
do so the new way unless you have a managed switch that would prevent more
IP addresses.  It's hard to tell...
Bob Comer

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