▷ How to enable hyper

Virtualization is available to everyone with Windows, and today we are going to see quickly how to enable Hyper-V in Windows 10. For this we are going to show you all the ways to do it and so you can choose the one that suits you best, We will also see in which versions this Microsoft Hypervisor is available.

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Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization tool implemented in PRO versions of its operating system. In addition to a tool that is incorporated natively and free of charge in the different versions of Windows 10 and Server.

What versions does Hyper-V have installed?

Although we may not see it at first, Hyper-V is available in our operating system. For this we will need to have one of these versions of Windows:

• Windows 10 Enterprise Windows 10 Pro Windows 10 Education Windows Server 2008 R2 (must be downloaded) Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2016

When enabling Hyper-V in Windows 10, we will have to keep one thing in mind, and that is that this application will give us problems if we have another virtualization tool installed on our computer, for example, VMware or VirtualBox.

Enable Hyper-V in Windows 10

Well, once seen the versions of the Windows operating system that implement this tool natively, we will proceed to enable it in the different ways that we have available in our system,

Activate Hyper-v from settings

The first of the options to activate Hyper-V in Windows 10, we will have it available graphically. The steps to follow are very easy.

The first thing we should do is click on the start menu and write " Activate or deactivate Windows features " or just by writing features it should appear.

If it does not appear in the start menu, we could also go to the system configuration by clicking on the gear wheel in the lower left area of ​​the start menu.

Located in the main configuration menu we should click on " Applications ".

Then we would have to go to the end of the list of programs installed on our computer to see the option " Programs and features."

A new window will open in which we should click on the option " Activate or deactivate Windows features"

In this way we would have reached exactly the same place as looking for it directly in the start menu.

Well, in the list of features we must locate " Hyper-V " and activate both the main option and the options that hang from it.

Now we will have to restart the computer for the features to apply, otherwise Hyper-V will not activate correctly.

Activate Hyper-v in Windows 10 with PowerShell

The next way we will have to activate the Windows Hypervisor will be, of course, through the Windows PoweShell command console. It will not be possible to do this via command prompt.

We are going to right click on the start menu to open a menu with a gray background. Here we will have to choose the option " Windows PowerShell (Admin) ". Since we need administrator permissions to activate this feature.

Once inside terminal, we will have to write this line and press Enter. To confirm the installation we will have to write “y” and also press Enter.

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-v –All

Or if we prefer we will also have this other option:

DISM / Online / Enable-Feature / All / FeatureName: Microsoft-Hyper-v

The process will begin and also in this case we will have to restart the computer

In this way we will already have Hyper-v Windows 10 enabled. Now it would be our turn to start creating virtual machines in our Hypervisor, but we will do this in another article that we already have available for all of you.

To follow the next steps visit these tutorials:

If you have not been able to enable Hyper-V in Windows 10 correctly write us in the comments to solve the error.