Enabling virtualization on Windows 10 (bootcamp)

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Enabling virtualization on Windows 10 (bootcamp)

I am not able to turn virtualization on in my MacBook Pro (mid 2015) when I run Windows 10.

I have seen there's a workaround for this by setting the startup disk as BootCamp. And it actually worked for enabling Hyper-V support, but not for the virtualization.

I had even tried this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32932961/osx-10-11-el-capitan-setting-boot-de vice-property-not-working and for running the command in there I also needed to disable the System Integrity Projection (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32932961/osx-10-11-el-capitan-setting-boot-de vice-property-not-working). However, I received a message saying Legacy Mode not supported on this system.

Is there a way to enable the virtualization feature?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), macOS Sierra (10.12.3)

Posted on Feb 19, 2017 2:40 PM

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Loner T

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Feb 19, 2017 3:51 PM in response to tavo91

The Bless command is used for legacy BIOS OSes (WXP, Vista, W7) on a Mac. A 2015 Mac only supports EFI Boot of Windows, and bless does not work.

I suggest you use nested visualization using Parallels or VMware Fusion - http://kb.parallels.com/en/116239 .

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tavo91 Author

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Feb 19, 2017 5:13 PM in response to Loner T

Thank you for your response.

I found Parallels when I was searching information related to this, but I already had Windows 10 installed with BootCamp. Moreover, I'm a little bit concerned about the performance using either Parallels or VMWare, since I will be running a Hololens emulator (which I feel like it is going to be a bit heavy for that).

I am considering moving into that if there is no solution for BootCamp and/or the performance of nested virtualization is not bad when emulating things like Hololens. Do you still suggest using Parallels?

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jQwotos

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Mar 19, 2017 2:30 PM in response to tavo91

I currently use parallels just to run a few office apps (I prefer Windows version of Office over Mac). I've tried running things like unity, and it feels fairly sluggish. I've now swapped to just having a windows computer at home and remote in using RDP, and it runs fairly well. Sometimes the picture quality will dip down when your own a poor network, but I found that I didn't notice any typing delay. But that all also depends on your internet connection.

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Loner T

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Feb 20, 2017 3:39 AM in response to tavo91

You can import a BC/Windows installation as a VM in Parallels. I suggest you try it before other alternatives are explored further.

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