Microsoft Enables Hyper-V Support for Windows-on-ARM Devices

[AleksandarK]

Microsoft is determined in its goal to move away from x86-64 dominance it had in the personal computer space for many decades. In the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19559, Microsoft has enabled Hyper-V support for ARM64 devices, such as Surface Pro X. Hyper-V is a Windows native hypervisor and it is Microsoft's virtualization technology that allows running other OSes on top of Windows. Being a low-overhead solution, it is more efficient than a virtual machine and allows for better performance of OS that is running on top of Windows.

With the Insider Preview Build 19559, Microsoft is enabling this feature on a Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise customers. It is important to note that by adding more features like this, Microsoft is expanding the software ecosystem of ARM64 devices, which should result in wider adoption of PCs like the Surface Pro X.


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[notb]

IMO this looks like a move towards ARM servers, not ARM ultrabooks.

Which doesn't make Hyper-V on ARM PCs any less welcome (Docker and everything).

 

[voltage]

well that is interesting, and could turn out to be quite useful.