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Although Hyper-V is not intended for the Home SKUs, it can be installed on Windows 10 Home unofficially using a batch file. Alongside, unlike Virtual PC, Hyper-V is a "level 1 hypervisor" and thus cannot coexist with [[VirtualBox]] or [[VMware]], which both are "level 2 hypervisors". However, as of Windows 10, version 1803, Microsoft has added the [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/ Windows Hypervisor Platform] to Windows, which allows third-party virtualization software like [[VMware]]<ref>[https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/05/vmware-workstation-now-supports-hyper-v-mode.html VMware supports Windows Hypervisor Platform as of VMware Workstation/Player 15.5. (Windows 10 version 2004 required)]</ref> or [[VirtualBox]]<ref>[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v0 VirtualBox supports Windows Hypervisor Platform as of VirtualBox 6.0.]</ref> to run and manage virtual machines on the Hyper-V hypervisor. | Although Hyper-V is not intended for the Home SKUs, it can be installed on Windows 10 Home unofficially using a batch file. Alongside, unlike Virtual PC, Hyper-V is a "level 1 hypervisor" and thus cannot coexist with [[VirtualBox]] or [[VMware]], which both are "level 2 hypervisors". However, as of Windows 10, version 1803, Microsoft has added the [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/ Windows Hypervisor Platform] to Windows, which allows third-party virtualization software like [[VMware]]<ref>[https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/05/vmware-workstation-now-supports-hyper-v-mode.html VMware supports Windows Hypervisor Platform as of VMware Workstation/Player 15.5. (Windows 10 version 2004 required)]</ref> or [[VirtualBox]]<ref>[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v0 VirtualBox supports Windows Hypervisor Platform as of VirtualBox 6.0.]</ref> to run and manage virtual machines on the Hyper-V hypervisor. | ||
== Supported guest operating systems == | |||
A list of officially supported OSes that can run on Hyper-V in [[Windows 11]].<ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/supported-windows-guest-operating-systems-for-hyper-v-on-windows</ref><ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/supported-linux-and-freebsd-virtual-machines-for-hyper-v-on-windows</ref> | |||
*[[Windows 7]] with Service Pack 1 and above | |||
*[[Windows Server 2008]] with Service Pack 1 and above | |||
*[[Linux|Most versions of Linux]] | |||
=== Deprecated operating systems === | |||
The following operating systems are supported on older versions of Hyper-V on older host Windows systems, but aren't supported in the latest Windows 11 version of Hyper-V.<ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc794868(v=ws.10)</ref><ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn792028(v=ws.11)</ref> | |||
*[[Windows 2000]] Server with Service Pack 4 (support removed on [[Windows 8]] and [[Windows Server 2012]]) | |||
*[[Windows XP]] with Service Pack 2 or [[Windows XP Professional x64 Edition]] with Service Pack 2 (support removed on [[Windows 10]] and [[Windows Server 2016]]) | |||
*[[Windows Server 2003]] with Service Pack 2 (support removed on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016) | |||
*[[Windows Vista]] with Service Pack 2 (support removed on Windows 11) | |||
*[[Windows Small Business Server 2011]] (support removed on Windows 11) | |||
*[[Windows Home Server 2011]] (support removed on Windows 11) | |||
*[[Windows MultiPoint Server 2011]] (support removed on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012) | |||
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