Showing posts with label SLAT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SLAT. Show all posts

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

Monday, June 26, 2017

Is your Windows 10 computer SLAT Compatible?

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