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Good chance that your other VM software can't co-exist anyway. Many other technologies, Windows Defender among others, leverage virtualization through Hyper-V.
by sebazzz 7y ago
Good chance that your other VM software can't co-exist anyway. Many other technologies, Windows Defender among others, leverage virtualization through Hyper-V.
- shawnz 7y agoHyper-V is not installed by default on Windows and I have not been required to install it for anything except WSL 2 (and Hyper-V itself). I think Docker on Windows also uses it but I don't use that. Windows Defender has never indicated a requirement for Hyper-V to me.
- mehrdadn 7y agoI think by Windows Defender they might've been thinking of the Sandbox?
- sebazzz 6y agoIt is not anywhere in the Windows features dialog mentioned explicitly but many features install an hypervisor under the covers. Not Hyper-V itself but a hypervisor which inhibits other VM hypervisors from functioning.
- shawnz 6y agoIf you are talking about "Windows Hypervisor Platform", that indeed has Hyper-V as a dependency.
- rb12345 6y agoCredentialGuard uses Hyper-V, so it could be that.