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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Windows 8 Hyper-V Requirement

 

Hyper-V for Windows 8 will have new requirements. These new requirements are

  • SLAT (Second Level Address Translation)
  • 64 bit Operating System
  • 4 GB

Next question is how do you verify that your laptop / hardware can support SLAT?

To verify , download Coreinfo from here. Then execute

coreinfo.exe -v

Here is the sample result which i obtained:-

Sample #1:

image

Sample #2:

coreinfo

For Intel processor:- refer to EPT for SLAT

For AMD processor:-refer to NPT for SLAT

Note:-

* = supported for that feature

- = no support for that feature