Microsoft Virtualisation User Group UK

I can see why you would want to do that, but any extension into the business day could cause me some issues... aving said that, 25 June has been and gone, so I guess I missed it!

I love Apple hardware but it's a bit too pricey... try this instead... I got a quad core (single socket) Dell PowerEdge 840 with 8GB of RAM for just under £600 last year... bit more affordable! More info at http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2008/01/controlling-costs-when-buying-a-pc.htm Hope to see you on Thursday night!

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I can understand why it works in boot camp - AFAIK, bootcamp is really just an boot loader with switching capabilities and it allows Windows operating systems to see the EFI as BIOS. Without that translation, Hyper-V is failing to find the processor support it's looking for because it makes the BIOS calls and they fail. Given this situation, I wouldn't

Hi Torsten - not that I'm aware of. I'd love to hear from anyone who has got it working though... Mark

Hi Kevin, I was talking to one of the user group members earlier tonight and he said he'd tried to install Hyper-V on a MacBook Pro and failed (after much trying, even involving Ben Armstrong from the product group). The problem appears to be that, because the MacBook Pro does not have a BIOS (it uses EFI), it fails the check for processor capabilities

Count me in! Mark Wilson http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/