Pre-Boot Requirements

The hypervisor or its boot agent must validate that the following requirements are true before or during a successful start of the hypervisor:

  • All physical processors support the minimum feature set that is required by the hypervisor.

  • All physical processors have an identical number of cores and hyperthreads per core.

  • The physical processors support virtualization extensions (for example, Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT) or AMD's Pacifica extensions).

  • The physical processors run in monitor mode; that is, the hypervisor does not attempt to be started on top of an existing hypervisor or Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

For more information about hypervisor pre-boot requirements, see Hypervisor Boot-time CPUID Feature Requirements.

 

 

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