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Is it possible to enable nested virtualization for Windows 10 Hyper-V, for the root environment? The root Windows environment cannot run other virtualization software like VMWare without it.

David Pfeffer
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Three is possible to enable nested virtualization on exact stopped machine by PowerShell command with Administrator privileges:

Set-VMProcessor -VMName deb9 -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

where deb9 is a stopped virtual machine name which can be taken from Hyper-V management console: hyper-v

Oleg Neumyvakin
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    This doesn't answer the question of how to do this for the root environment. – David Pfeffer Dec 17 '18 at 14:43
  • @DavidPfeffer could you please explain what is "root environment" for you? – Oleg Neumyvakin Dec 17 '18 at 16:38
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    The root environment is Windows 10 w/ Hyper-V. – David Pfeffer Dec 18 '18 at 20:06
  • @DavidPfeffer so command line in my answer is doing exactly this. You have host OS(root environment is Windows 10 w/ Hyper-V) which has VMs which has option `ExposeVirtualizationExtensions` and this option have to be set to enable nested virtualization fo this VM – Oleg Neumyvakin Dec 19 '18 at 06:27
  • @DavidPfeffer VMware doesn't work in same time with Hyper-V, because of Guard Credentials https://communities.vmware.com/thread/600620 – Oleg Neumyvakin Dec 19 '18 at 06:29
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    It doesn't seem like your command line is doing this. What name would you use in place of `deb9` for the root environment? – David Pfeffer Dec 21 '18 at 15:09
  • @DavidPfeffer It's not a my command, it's a command from MS docs, and it's enables nested virtualization for specified VM, check answer again for more details. – Oleg Neumyvakin Dec 22 '18 at 06:09
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    You aren't answering the question. What name would you use for the *root* environment? – David Pfeffer Dec 22 '18 at 18:10
  • If you are unfamiliar with Hyper-V architecture, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/hyper-v-architecture – David Pfeffer Dec 22 '18 at 18:33