Dear Forum members,
I have a Mac Pro Early 2008 Intel Xeon, 16GB running Snow Leopard and VMWare Fusion 5 installed, plus a couple of virtual machines running flawlessly. I decided to create another virtual machine running Windows 2012 Server. The installation went smoothly. However, when I tried to enable Hyper-V I got into trouble.
In Virtual Machine Settings > System Settings > General: I selected "Hyper-V (unsupported)"
In Processor and Memory I selected 4 cores, 4 GB, and in Advanced: Enable hypervisor applications...
In Other/Advanced: Preferred Virtualization Engine: Intel VT-x with EPT
and all possible permutations of these selections. Nothing worked.
Error messages:
Hyper-V cannot be installed. The processor does not have the required virtualization capabilities.
Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform.
Preferred mode unavailable. Using VT-x instead. This host does not support EPT.
All this leads me to believe that my hardware configuration does not support the running of hyper-v virtual machines in Fusion. Depending on your philosophy one can consider this to be a fact of life: not everything is always possible. However, what drives me nuts are the guys on the internet blogs telling everyone that it works on their system! I would like to hear from an authoritative voice whether this can be done, or not.
Thanks in advance
EP
