Para verificar se o seu computador atende aos requisitos de sistema do Client Hyper-V no Windows 8, digite o seguinte em um prompt do CMD ou do PowerShell:
systeminfo
Na parte inferior da saída, você verá algo assim:
Hyper-V Requirements: VM Monitor Mode Extensions: No
Virtualization Enabled In Firmware: No
Second Level Address Translation: No
Data Execution Prevention Available: Yes
No exemplo acima, você pode ver que a máquina que estou usando não é capaz de executar o Client Hyper-V.
Além disso, no site da Microsoft :
Hyper-V requires a 64-bit system that has Second Level Address Translation (SLAT). For information about checking and changing the virtualization support settings of your system BIOS, consult your system manufacturer.
Hyper-V supports the creation of both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems in virtual machines.
Note You must license each of the virtual machine operating systems according to their requirements. 4 GB of RAM is required. The RAM on your computer running Client Hyper-V is allocated and deallocated dynamically as required by the virtual machines. You can run several virtual machines on a computer running Client Hyper-V (also called a “host”) that has the minimum 4 GB of RAM, but you will need additional RAM for 5 or more virtual machines, depending on the RAM requirements for each virtual machine.
Client Hyper-V supports the same storage migration capability that is included in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. This means you can have your virtual machines fairly independent of the underlying storage. You can move a virtual machine’s storage to and from one local drive to another, to a USB drive, or to a remote file share without needing to stop the virtual machine.