

Now scroll down in the Control Panel and look for Hyper-V. This will bring up a search result called Turn Windows features on or off as shown belowĬlick on the Turn Windows features on or off result and the Windows Features control panel will open.

To open this control panel, click on the Start Menu and type hyper-v into the search field. Instructions on how to enable CPU virtualization can be found in the article: How to Enable CPU Virtualization in Your Computer's BIOS.īy default, Hyper-V is not installed in Windows and in order to use it, must be installed via the Windows Features control panel. If you are unsure if virtualization is enabled, you can try to install Hyper-V using the instructions below, and if its not enabled, Windows will not allow you to continue the installation.

In order to use Hyper-V, you need to have virtualization enabled in the computer's BIOS and be running Windows 10 Professional, Windows 10 Enterprise, or Windows server. Hyper-V is a virtual machine software solution that is included with Windows 10 Professional, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows Server that allows you to run multiple operating systems at once from within one instance of Windows.
