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I am totally new to Virtual Machines on this platform. (I started in the early 80's as a programmer and then a systems admin on a main frame that ran VM, so I know what it does).
I went into my Bios and made sure Virtualization is enabled.

My confusion is in the setting of Hyper-V. When I go to "Turn Windows Features on/off" I do not see anything that says Hyper-V. I do see 2 things that look similar "Virtual Machine Platform" and "Windows Hypervisor Platform". Both are unchecked and I have left them that way.
My confusion on the two options in the features list comes from what I see when I hover over them, see attachments.

Virtual Machine Platform says "Enables platform support for Virtual Machines"
Windows Hypervisor Platform says "Enables virtualization software to run on the windows hypervisor"

My question is should I enable one or both of these or leave them disabled.

In case you need to know I am running Windows 10.0.18363 build 18363

RayGo1975 wrote:My question is should I enable one or both of these or leave them disabled.

So far, definitely leave them disabled.

Windows 10 has a lot of services and features that can use Hyper-V. Windows Home can't run Hyper-V virtual machines, but has many or all of the other services. So both Home, Pro, and Enterprise have Hyper-V.

Virutalbox is trying to run under Hyper-V, but it isn't all there yet. See "VirtualBox 6.0 and Hyper-V" viewtopic.php?f=6&t=90853 for some growing pains.

Also, some folks report inability to successfully run a guest OS installer that integrity-checks the install media, or download updates. When inspecting the guest vbox.log, Hyper-V is enabled, and when Hyper-V is disabled, the installers and updaters succeed. See HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active)

Forum advice typically is to turn off Hyper-V until the devs pin down Microsoft's constantly-moving target and get a setup that runs Hyper-V without trouble. See I have a 64bit host, but can't install 64bit guests, posts 2 & 3.

(this question is very much Windows-host-centric, so I moved it to Windows Hosts.)

Since posting this I install 16GB of RAM (only had 4GB before). This has greatly helped and I am now able to install and run VMs on my windows 10 laptop. Thank you for the rely and I will look up the posts you referenced.

Quick question... Is this how I mark this solved?

I'll do it for you.

scottgus1 wrote:I'll do it for you.

Try again. SCNR