Dean Chalk

Q: Bootcamp With Windows 8.1 Virtualization Issues On Start

Hi All

 

Ive just purchased a new 13 inch MBP Retina with 8GB Ram

 

I am a Microsoft Developer, specialising in mobile, so I installed Windows 8.1 on bootcamp, and am using windows this way 2/3rd of the time (I also use my MBP for OSX a third of the time)

 

When I go into Mac system preferences and restart as bootcamp, my Mac restarts in Windows with virtualization enabled, which is essential as I am running Visual Studio's dev tools including Windows Phone Emulators.

 

If I've booted into Windows via bootcamp (virtualization is enabled) and then do a restart in Windows, the virtualization is still enabled - great!

 

However, if I hibernate my Mac while in Windows, or shutdown windows (which is a form of OS hibernation with Windows 8), and then restart,  the virtualization is disabled, and my emulators will no longer spin up.

 

I have tried restarting windows via the bootcamp control panel in Windows, but that doesnt fix it.

 

The only way to get windows running with virtualization on is to boot into windows via the bootcamp option in Mac preferences - EVERY TIME, so I am stuck with doing the following every time I want to use my mac for windows development:

 

1) startup in windows

2) Using Bootcamp control panel restart OSX

3) In mac system preferences retart Bootcamp

4) start Visual Studio and emulators

 

Surely there must be a way of getting this to work seemlessly

 

Dean

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Windows 8

Posted on May 8, 2014 12:26 AM

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