pregunta sobre la funcionalidad de procesadores kaby lake 7th generación y vmware (question about kaby lake processors and vmware functionality)

[ECháv]

Acabo de comprar una HP Omen 17-W209NS, incorporada con una intel core i7 - 7700 HQ, la necesito para usarla con el vmware 12, ya que tengo una serie de imagenes creadas anteriormente (windows 7 64, windows 7 32, windows Xp), antes de formatear la maquina e instalar el windows 10, necesito estar seguro que este software funcionara bien con el procesador i7-7700HQ, ya que he revisado varios foros que indican que intel ha limitado por software de herramientas de virtualización y de arranque dual con windows 7 y windows 10, la maquina la compre para usar mis maquinas virtuales existentes y necesito estar seguro que podré hacerlo.

Gracias de antemano por la respuesta.

I have just bought a new a HP Omen 17-W209NS, built-in with an intel core i7 - 7700 HQ, despite the laptop has only the MS-DOS operative systema and I need to install the new window 10, before that, I have many questions about virtualization with the most popular virtualization software that it's the vmware workstation, I have many vmware images for differents applications and operative systems and I need to continue to use them, I have read some forum that talk about the software lock of the intel kaby lake (7th generation) processors regarding to virtualization works and dual boot functionality (for example windows 10 and windows 7).

Could anybody tell me about the real situation about intel 7th CPU and virtualization+dual boot with windows seven?I need to know that the HP Omen 17-W209NS is enought for my vmware pro 12 before install the windows 10

Thank you in advanced

[idata]

EMartinezCh, Thank you very much for joining the Intel® Processors communities.

In regard to your inquiry, there are no documents, reports or known issues in our data base about a software lock or a virtualization limitation for the Intel® Kaby Lake processors when using WMware® 12 on a dual boot configuration on any of the Windows versions. Now, remember that HP is able to customize all the features in your laptop, they can enable and disable some options on it, so it is always good to verify those details with them directly:https://support.hp.com/us-en/contact-hp https://support.hp.com/us-en/contact-hp I looked at the requirements of WMware® 12, and the processor should fully support it:http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/faqs.html http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/faqs.html On the link below you can confirm the processor fully supports all the features for virtualization, looked under "Advanced Technologies":http://ark.intel.com/products/97185/Intel-Core-i7-7700HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/97185/Intel-Core-i7-7700HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz You mentioned, you saw some forums reporting that information about the Intel® Kaby Lake processors, could you please provide a link where we can see them? This is in order for us to review the information showing in there. Any further questions, please let me know. Regards,Alberto

[ECháv]

Dear Alberto,

Thank you for your reply, I write some links about the information:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3301016/skylake-kaby-lake-windows.html Skylake, Kaby Lake, & Windows 7 - CPUs - Tom's Hardware

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3112663/software/microsoft-made-em-do-it-the-latest-kaby-lake-zen-chips-will-support-only-windows-10.html Microsoft made 'em do it: The latest Kaby Lake, Zen chips will support only Windows 10 | PCWorld

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/563124 VMware Workstation 12.5 and Intel 7th Performan... |VMware Communities

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2661805# 2661805 VMware and 7th Gen CPUs |VMware Communities

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/560510 Kaby Lake Virtualized Perfomance Counter support? |VMware Communities

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/552930 Kaby Lake support for Workstation 12 Guests on ... |VMware Communities

I don`t know why there are many internet information about functionality problems of kaby lake, but anycase I believe you,

[idata]

EMartinezCh, Thank you very much for providing that information and those links, we really appreciate that.

Now, even though we do not have any reports about a know issue between the Intel® i7 -7700HQ and VMware 12, I will do further research on this matter, and as soon as I get any details I will post all the information on this thread.

Any questions, please let me know. Regards,Alberto

[idata]

Hi, EMartinezCh, I just wanted to let you know that I did further research and review once again the reports about the Intel® Kaby Lake processors and VMware 12, and as mentioned previously there are no known issues between them. The processor in question does support Virtualization and it meets VMware system requirements and Windows® 7 is also supported,so it could work just fine. For further details, as an option you can always contact VMware directly for any configuration guidance:

https://www.vmware.com/support/contacts.html VMware Support Contact Options

Any questions, please let me know. Regards,Alberto