Wednesday, December 20, 2017

How do you check if your computer supports Second Level Address Translation?


Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), also known as nested paging, is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology which makes it possible to avoid the overhead associated with software-managed shadow page tables.
Intel's implementation of SLAT is known as Extended Page Table and is available for Intel Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3 procesors.
The computer used here is Windows 10 Pro from DELL and seems to have Core i7.
How do you check if the machine is SLAT capable?
You download this tool from CodePlex.
MachineSLATStatusCheck from here:

http://slatstatuscheck.codeplex.com/

You get a zipped EXE file; CheckSLATStatusOfMachine.exe (6.45KB)
Extract it and run and click check and immediately you get a response as shown (for this Dell machine).


SLATCheck

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