Below are the steps to enable Hyper V in Windows 10 Step 1 – Find out if your System is Hardware compatible, that is if CPU Supports Virtualization Technology You can use VMware Workstation or Virtual Box as alternatives to Hyper-V to run 32 bit OS. So don’t loose hope if your Processor does not support Virtualization Technology. However for 64 bit OS, you still require Virtualization technology for both VMware and VirtualBox. Please note that VMware Workstation, VMware Player or Oracle Virtual Box does not require Virtualization Technology if you want to run 32 bit OS. To find if your processor supports Virtualization Technology or not, you can Google search the specification of your processor or refer to my post which explains how to find out if your CPU supports Virtualization either Inter VT-x or AMD-V. What all the above means is that you should have Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Education edition installed on your system and your CPU or processor must support Virtualization Technology. Note: The above requirement might seem confusing to you.

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Virtualization Technology – may have a different label depending on motherboard manufacturer.

The following items will need to be enabled in the system BIOS: As virtual machines share memory with the Hyper-V host, you will need to provide enough memory to handle the expected virtual workload. CPU support for VM Monitor Mode Extension (VT-c on Intel CPU’s).64-bit Processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).To install Hyper-V, your computer must meet the below requirement. The Hyper-V role can be enabled on these versions of Windows 10: Rest of the blog discusses the steps in detail. There are other popular tools available such as VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation Player and VirtualBox which can be used instead of Hyper-V.īelow is the YouTube Video which describes the process. In this post I will show you how to install, setup and configure Hyper-V virtualization tool from Microsoft in Windows 10.

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