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Enable Hyper-V on MacBook Pro Late 2016 makes bootcamp unusable

I am running Windows 10 Pro in BootCamp on the new MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2016) with touchbar.


When I go to add/remove Windows feature and enable Hyper-V the installation completes successfully.

However after the restart to enable the feature the system is unusable. The restart takes several minutes rather than the usual 30 seconds and Windows is unresponsive once it reaches the Windows login screen


Disabling the Hyper-V feature after booting into Windows recovery returns the system to normal


Is there some other trick to getting this going or is the MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2016) with touchbar not truly Windows compatible?

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016), Windows 10

Posted on Dec 2, 2016 4:10 PM

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Dec 22, 2016 4:09 AM in response to Loner T

For those following this thread, I wanted to post some info that may be helpful.


I have been doing some testing and it appears that we can get Hyper-V to work on the MBP on all of our units except the 2016 MBP with Touch Bar, I also tested using latest Fusion 8.5 and Parallels 12 at time of this post with Nested Virtualization enabled on both products. Here are scenarios/results I have tested:


17" MBP - Team loved large screens. Was sad to see them go.

Even though officially unsupported, we pieced Boot Camp drivers together to get full Windows 10 support

Requires warm boot from Mac to Windows to set the HW virtualization flags

Hyper-V runs in Boot Camp

4GB Memory Limitation makes them pretty unusable for serious Dev or virtualization


2014 15" MBP 16GB and latest 2015 15" MBP (2015 Models purchased 2 months ago from Apple Store)

Requires Warm Boot to set the HW virtualization flags

Hyper-V will then run in Boot Camp natively

Parallels has odd issue with Nested Hyper-V (Nested W10 was confusing keyboard input refusing sign-in). (Parallels announced they have issue with multi-proc nested virtualization VM settings that they are working on.)

Fusion runs nested Hyper-V


2016 15" MBP 16GB (Models purchased from Apple Direct through Apple Store)

WIndows 10 hangs after Hyper-V turned on regardless of Warm Boot Flag Set or Not

Did not try Parallels due to issue described above

Fusion allowed me to enable Hyper-V without reboot hang

Fusion then runs Nested Hyper-V

Then tried booting into Boot Camp hoping Hyper-V would behave after getting through install inside Fusion. It locked the machine again.


Seems to be just the latest model. I have escalated case with Apple and Microsoft. No word yet from either. May not get very far due to holidays. We have until 1/8/2017 to return either 2015 or 2016 units, which at this time is very probable that we will return 2016 units.

Dec 22, 2016 4:44 AM in response to kurtbaby

On the 2016 tbMBP, did you look at the Event Viewer logs?


All 2014 units natively support CSM-BIOS (as they support W7).


All 2015 units only support EFI boot. If Hyper-V support has issues in EFI, it is not an easy fix. For example many with iMac 5Ks still have issues with Hyper-V, but your testing shows no such issues on MBPs.


2016 units are too new and unstable. I suggest keeping a single unit for testing and returning all others, till you have resolution. There is no point in locking money.


It is good to see the Nested-virtualization is still not broken. 😎


Can you reach out to VMware and ask them if they will research on your behalf on 2016 tbMBPs?

Enable Hyper-V on MacBook Pro Late 2016 makes bootcamp unusable

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