Comments on: Run Hyper-V on Windows 10 on ARM and the Surface Pro X

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 07:54:34 +0000

In reply to Jochen W. Will need to check :)

By: Jochen W

Jochen W — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 06:09:29 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Will Windows Defender Application Guard work? WDAG requires VT-X or AMD-V but Hyper-V is running on it. Since the last insider build MS will move from Hyper-V to container which needs less resources and it won‘t need VT-X. But right now, can I use WDAG in Edge on a Surface Pro X. Didn’t find any information on MS docs.

Many thanks

By: Jochen Wargulski

Jochen Wargulski — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 06:08:41 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Many thanks

By: Neil S

Neil S — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 02:09:13 +0000

The blog post mentioned you need to join the insider ring and upgrade to at least build 19559. You’re running 19042.

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:56:54 +0000

In reply to Robbie. Business? Hyper-V is only available in Pro, Pro for Workstations, Enterprise, and I think Education.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:23:45 +0000

Is it confirmed this doesn’t work with Windows 10 Business? only for Pro or Enterprise ?
Versions 20H2 Build:19042.572
I am getting this error:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature : Feature name Microsoft-Hyper-V is unknown.
At line:1 char:1
+ Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Dism.Commands.EnableWindowsOptionalFeatureCommand

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:33:25 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Do you have any indication if and when there will be Windows on ARM VMs available in Azure? Certainly the newly added arm64 support for Hyper-V will help I assume.

I’m curious because I’m helping some (open source) software projects to launch Windows on ARM versions. While cross-compiling from a x64 host works, they can’t run their test suites on arm64 since there’s not a single CI/cloud provider offering Windows on ARM VMs currently. One of the few options they have currently is to have an arm64 device (like the Surface Pro X) running in their offices with the Azure Pipelines x86 agent on it, which is far from ideal.

Thanks in advance!

By: Chris Red

Chris Red — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 01:27:14 +0000

Hey Thomas!
was wondering if there was any way i can run SP3 on a VM? thanks! someone stole my SP3 and im trying to recover some files that were not cloud stored.

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:09:38 +0000

In reply to Dominic Brien. Hi Dominic Well You will need to run ARM apps or x86 32-bit apps will run as well. x64 apps are currently not able to run (but I think the Windows team said that they are working on it). The same limitations also apply for the Apps within the virtual machine.

By: Dominic Brien

Dominic Brien — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:30:48 +0000

Thanks for sharing but the big question is can you run applications on the VM that you can’t on the host OS.
So far I am very disappointed with the X upgrade.
Nothing will install even Microsoft stuff.