SLAT stands for Seccond Level Address Translation is a hardware based virtualization technology. It reduces the overhead assoiated with software manged shadow page tables.
How do you find your computer is SLAT compatible?
There is a nice tool here that readily tells you if your computer is compatible.
Download the tool and extract the executable ( ChecksSLATStatusOfMachine.exe; 15KB) to a folder. Double click the executable to bring up this page.
SLAT_00
Just double click the label Click To Check.
You get the answer after a little while as shown.
SLAT_01
Although this works whether Hyper-V is enabled or not but if the OS supports Hyper-V you may assume it is SLAT compatible. In order to enable Hyper-V follow these posts.
Activating Hyper-V on Windows 10:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-you-install-hyper-v-on-windows-10.html
Enabling Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 OS:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-do-you-enable-hyper-v-in-windows-81.html
How do you find your computer is SLAT compatible?
There is a nice tool here that readily tells you if your computer is compatible.
Download the tool and extract the executable ( ChecksSLATStatusOfMachine.exe; 15KB) to a folder. Double click the executable to bring up this page.
SLAT_00
Just double click the label Click To Check.
You get the answer after a little while as shown.
SLAT_01
Although this works whether Hyper-V is enabled or not but if the OS supports Hyper-V you may assume it is SLAT compatible. In order to enable Hyper-V follow these posts.
Activating Hyper-V on Windows 10:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-you-install-hyper-v-on-windows-10.html
Enabling Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 OS:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-do-you-enable-hyper-v-in-windows-81.html
