How to quickly disable hyper-v to be able to run VB machines

[moeen49]

Hi,

I have VB on a windows 2008 r2 server. It is working perfectly fine.

When I activate Hyper-V role, VB can’t run and it complains about not being able to access to hardware virtualization.

At this point I have to activate and deactivate hyper-v role (needs restart – long process) to be able to switch between HyperV and VB.

Is there any quicker way to temporarily disable Hyper-V, so I can run VB and then enable Hyper-V again?

I have tried to stop the hyper-v in its console, it didn't help.

Thank you,

[vbox4me2]

You might be able to do this but after about 30 switches between the 2, hyperv can crash the Host because of a registry mess-up, so make a choice between the 2.

[moeen49]

You might be able to do this but after about 30 switches between the 2, hyperv can crash the Host because of a registry mess-up, so make a choice between the 2.

And that is why I am asking this question. Is the any better temporary way of disabling hyper-v?

Thanks,

[Sasquatch]

No, and even if there was, you might get the same result noted above: crashes because of Hyper-V messing things up. Make up your mind, use Hyper-V or VB, don't mix and match. You can't run KVM and Xen at the same time on Linux either and I'm pretty sure they conflict each other in packages.

[Björn König]

You can disable Hyper-V without deinstalling it. Start a command prompt with administrator rights and execute the following command:

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bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Reboot windows. Hyper-V is disabled now. If you want to enable it, then run this command:

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bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

and reboot again.

This solution still needs a reboot, but you don't mess up your registry and don't lose configuration settings.

I think this issue will become a topic because Windows 8 Pro edition provides the Hyper-V feature.

Best regards
Björn

[BillG]

Or you can prevent the hypervisor from loading by changing hypervisorlaunchtype from auto to no. That is the official Microsoft method.

[Johannnz]

You can disable Hyper-V without deinstalling it. Start a command prompt with administrator rights and execute the following command:

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bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Reboot windows. Hyper-V is disabled now. If you want to enable it, then run this command:

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bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

and reboot again.

This solution still needs a reboot, but you don't mess up your registry and don't lose configuration settings.

I think this issue will become a topic because Windows 8 Pro edition provides the Hyper-V feature.

Best regards
Björn

It Worked very well for me, I have been trying a lot of things, but this just this worked.. I really appreciate your help.

Regards
Johan

It Worked very well for me, I have been trying a lot of things, but this just this worked.. I really appreciate your help.