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KikesTheBikes
Copper Contributor
Jul 14, 2025

Can't fully disable the hypervisor (specifically Hyper-V) on my Windows 11 Home 24H2 Machine

Hi, I'm running Windows 11 Home 24H2, and I'm trying to fully disable Hyper-V/VBS to allow Oracle's Virtual Box to use VT-x natively.

So far I have:

Disabled BitLocker, Secure Boot, and Memory Integrity
Removed all optional features: Hyper-V, VirtualMachinePlatform, WindowsHypervisorPlatform
Set all relevant boot flags:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
bcdedit /set vm No
bcdedit /set vsmlaunchtype Off

Also set registry keys:
DeviceGuard\EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity = 0
LSA\LsaCfgFlags = 0

Yet, running systeminfo still gives:

Hyper-V Requirements: A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

I ran bcdedit /enum {current} and saw this:

isolatedcontext Yes

Additionally, when going into the control panel to turn off Window features, I am not given a single Hyper-V option, as shown:


I believe this is whatโ€™s still loading a minimal hypervisor layer, even after disabling everything else.
Is there any way to fully disable the hypervisor???
Thanks in advance!

2 Replies

  • tomeze's avatar
    tomeze
    Iron Contributor

    CMD running bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off and turning off BIOS virtualization will disable Hyper-V.

    • FranklinK2's avatar
      FranklinK2
      Copper Contributor

      He want to enable CPU virtualization of his VMs on another Hypervisor so couldn't disable BIOS virtualization.

      Regards,๐Ÿ™

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