Is Hyper-V Server 2008 working on Intel's Atom platform

Posted by Josip Medved on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Josip Medved
Published on 2009-09-02T07:22:17Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 11:43 UTC
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Did anybody try to install Hyper-V on Intel Atom platform?

Hyper-V requires:

  • x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology enabled
  • Hardware Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

It seems that both requirements are satisfied with Atom as processor. However, I wonder whether there is some blocking issue (e.g. BIOS that does not support it) since all Atom motherboards I checked had quite old north/south-bridge.

My intentions are to run two low-requirements virtual machines (embedded Linux), so performance should not be an issue.

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