Did you know you can use Hyper V on Windows 11 home to install Fedora 38

[Fairlytayleree]

I found a workaround! Here it is, in a batch file you can easily paste and runs in around 5 mins on your PC:

https://www.makeuseof.com/install-hyper-v-windows-11-home/#:~:text=You can enable Hyper-V,guest OS on virtual hardware

This link presents the batch file to run to force install via Windows Installation Services the freely distributed DLLs etc that constitute Hyper-V on Non-Pro versions of Windows 11. I am not claiming this is legal to use! You would have to read the text of your license agreements and those you are subject to so far.

I have Fedora 38 running with Windows 11 Home on HyperV with the Management Interface working. Here is a Hexus.net thread with some detail but it's quite easy and does appear to be (at the moment) a batch file that you could run on Windows 11 Home, effectively just paying for some Windows 8 Home license that might well have come with your laptop. Hyper-V is exciting since it's the future of Windows Mulititasking and you can even run Bluestacks 5 which I would recommend though it uses it's own assembler code no doubt.

I didn't link that UK thread, here it is (with picture proofs):
https://forums.hexus.net/software/426281-script-batch-file-install-hyper-v-manager-etc-windows-11-home-edition.html

Hyper-V is one of the major corporate selling points of using Windows 10 Pro so I find this fascinating in the long tradition of making MS Windows accessible to those without money and with Internet in the 3rd world but still not really wasting much developer time. Trust me, this is a long tradition, dating back to Windows 95 OSR 2 bulk keys that let you do 'test installs' as I was forced to at a previous (expensive) workplace of mine.

 

EDIT: You will need a CPU with Virtual Machine Virtualisation Enabled, and set it in the BIOS. In AMD workstation systems, this can sometimes be in an "Overclocking" menu in the BIOS to set.

[_neutrino Veteran]

Fun fact, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Subsystem for Android, and the Windows Sandbox tool are all just Hyper-V

[Fairlytayleree]

Good to hear from you Veteran Geoffrey B. Thank you.

The Sandbox tool seems like a good idea until they make it like the NX bit sequencein Windows 15... hehe