UEFI, Secure Boot capable: Gen 2 VMs have UEFI, which replaces the traditional BIOS on regular Gen 1 VMs.On Hyper-V, these are only available on Gen 2 VMs, so don’t try to install Windows 11 on a Gen 1 VM. Gen 2 VM: As you’ll see below, a TPM and secure boot are required for Windows 11.Specifically for a regular Hyper-V VM, here are the things you need enabled/configured to get Windows 11 to work: If you’re interested on the full system requirements for Windows 11, check out the Windows System Requirements page. If you create a regular VM on Hyper-V and try to install Windows 11 on it, this is most likely the screen you’ll get to during the setup: This blog post is my contribution so you don’t have to go through the same! However, it took me some time to get that VM up and running, simply because I forgot about the new hardware requirements for Windows 11 and that I had to get them configured before I installed the new OS in it. Happy new year everyone! Last month, before the holidays I wanted to run a Windows 11 VM on Hyper-V to run a few tests on Windows containers in a different environment than my local machine.
