Run Windows Hyper V on a device running WIndows 10 IoT Core?

Question

Hello all,

I have a device running windows 10 IoT core and was wondering if it would be possible to run hyper v to emulate Windows 10 IoT core or Windows 10X on it. Would this be possible and if so how affective would it be (my system has 2 core 4 threads at 2.33 ghz with 3gb of and 128gb of flash memory storage.)

Answer 1

Hi,

As per below article, I think Windows 10 IoT core might not support Hyper-V feature.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/hyper-v-requirements

Operating System Requirements
The Hyper-V role can be enabled on these versions of Windows 10:

Windows 10 Enterprise
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Education

But you can read the article and follow the guidance to check if you can run Hyper-V on your device. And if you can enable Hyper-V, I also found below threads about creating a Windows IoT Core Virtual Machine for your reference.

Windows IoT On Hyper-V Virtual Machine
https://github.com/agabopinho/Install-Windows-IoT-On-HyperV
Creating a Windows IoT Core Virtual Machine
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/895a247d-00a4-4add-8b0b-f58b8b570da4/creating-a-windows-iot-core-virtual-machine?forum=WindowsIoT
IoT Core and Oracle VirtualBox
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d30188d8-15c9-4b92-b76f-1524391df455/iot-core-and-oracle-virtualbox?forum=WindowsIoT

Hope above information can help you.

Thanks,
Eleven

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Answer 2

I investigated this option in 2018. Although Windows 10 IoT Core could run there were issues: https://annabooks.com/Articles/Articles_IoT10Core/Windows-10-IoT-Core-VM-Version-1.2.pdf Maybe there were updates since then.