Enabling hardware virtualization in Windows 7

Enabling virtualization

Therefore, virtualization tools are not separately enabled in Windows 7 - the motherboard firmware (BIOS) is responsible for this part. The only thing that can be done is to fix the functionality of third party virtual machine tools (such as Oracle VirtualBox or VMWare).

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Windows Virtual PC

By hardware virtualization, you may be referring to the official hardware virtualization tool. Windows 7 known as XP Mode or Virtual PC, which is nothing more than a virtual machine to run the super popular 2001 operating system. Unfortunately, it has been discontinued for a long time and the necessary files have been removed from the official page from Microsoft. However, we have prepared a backup copy that can be ed at the following link.

Next, install the available components: first one of the Cumulative Updates (which adds for virtualization), and then the ExPi machine itself. We have already covered the entire procedure and the details of it – the article linked below will give you all the information you need.