Hyper-V cannot be installed: The processor does not have required virtualization capabilities.

Question

Hello every body, i subscribed for Docker Engine - Enterprise for Windows Server 2019 and followed this video
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eObt3MSzWw&ab_channel=CloudInfrastructureServices 
but i encountered the the below error :
Success Restart Needed Exit Code      Feature Result
------- -------------- ---------      --------------
False   Maybe          Failed         {}
Install-WindowsFeature : A prerequisite check for the Hyper-V feature failed.
1. Hyper-V cannot be installed: The processor does not have required virtualization capabilities.

Please advise.

Answer

Hello,

On Amazon EC2 virtualised instances, nested virtualisation is not available. However, you can use Windows Server Containers without Hyper-V isolation. To use those, you can continue your installation with ignoring this error code.

If you need to use a Windows Server container with Hyper-V isolation specifically, you'd have to use a bare metal instance type. That'd will allow you to [enable](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/running-hyper-v-on-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances/) the Hyper-V feature set.

Hyper-V cannot be installed: The processor does not have required virtualization capabilities.

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