Windows 10 Virtualization disable/enable

Question

As i know, it's not possible to easily disable/enable Hyper-V without reboot on win10. But maybe is there a way to somehow "Hide" it from another applications? Maybe "Half disable/stop running Hyper-V apps". Bcs it's not convenient to reboot all the time, if i need to run an app that requires disabled Hyper-V.

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Answer 1

If you want to "hide" virtualization from an app, how about running it in a child partition, meaning launch it in its own virtual machine. Provided you don't have nested virtualization enabled, this should make the app see a processor without the virtualization extensions.

Then again... if the app is looking for that, maybe it's trying to use those extensions for its own purposes. What's your exact scenario?

Answer 2

Hi,

Thank you for your question.

As per my understanding, you're trying to disable Hyper-V without rebooting. Unfortunately, the role of Hyper-V can't be disabled without rebooting once it's installed. In fact Hyper-V is not an application running on Windows, but an underlying virtualization hypervisor. The hypervisor is the virtualization platform and supports isolation in terms of a partition. A partition is a logical unit of isolation in which operating systems execute. The host Windows runs in the root partition which creates the child partitions.

You may refer to the link below for more details

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/hyper-v-architecture

Answer 3

Hi,

Unfortunately it is not possible to "partially" disable Hyper-V, either you disable or enable it properly which requires a restart.
The Hyper-V role is not something you keep enabling or disabling, it should be a one time thing.

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Leon