For those who wonder if they could use Hyper-V with Windows 8 by re-purposing their old PCs, here are some helpful hints.

Hardware Requirements:

  • 64-bit system with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
  • 4 GB RAM (minimum)

You’ll need either Windows 8 Pro or Windows 8 Enterprise

To check and see if your PC supports SLAT

1. Download Coreinfo

2. Extract coreinfo.zip to your location choice

3. Open Command Prompt window and Run as administrator

cmd-administrator

4. Navigate to the coreinfo extracted location, and type coreinfo.exe –v

Since I already have Hyper-V enabled, the results produced as captured in the screenshot below

coreinfo-v
On PCs with Intel processors, without Hyper-V already enabled, the EPT line would have an * indicator.
“*” means the feature is present
“-“ means it is missing

In my next post, I will walkthrough how to enable Hyper-V on Windows 8.

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