How to turn on Hardware Virtualization on Late 2013 MacBook Pro (for Windows 8.1 using Boot Camp)?
There is no hardware virtualization to turn on or off like on Wintel PCs.
That switch and many other BIOS switches are there because (at least in part) the hardware manufacturers don't make the hardware AND software, like Apple does.
It is always on in any Mac that has a processor that supports virtualization. Pretty much any Mac in the last several years does so you are good to go with this one.
It sounds like you're running into the same issue I did, where after booting into Windows the VT-x shows as 'Disabled' in Task Manager.
Not sure how or why, but after going into
- OS X
- System Preferences
- Target Disk
- Select the BOOTCAMP disk as the startup disk
Everything was well after that and I could happily use Hyper-V, even from a cold boot.
If I cold booted using the Options-key, and then selecting Windows, VT-x was disabled in Task Manager.
Go figure. Could some Mac genius out there explain this one?