I need to enable virtualization since I need it in Windows which I use via BootCamp. Can you please provide simpler way to enable it in case there is such a way? I'm using MacBook Pro 2014 16" and my MacOS is Big Sur.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.7
I am running Windows and Google Play Games Beta still tells me to enable virtualization. If I try to launch WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) it tells me to enable virtualization as well.
I am running Windows and Google Play Games Beta still tells me to enable virtualization. If I try to launch WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) it tells me to enable virtualization as well.
Oracle VirtualBox is virtualization software that can host a variety of operating systems. It does not include the Microsoft Windows operating system, which you would need to purchase and install separately. In that regard it is very much like Boot Camp, which enables a Mac to boot and run Windows natively. I surmise if you installed Windows in Boot Camp you can also install it in VirtualBox without having to pay for another copy, but you would need to check Microsoft's licensing restrictions for a definitive answer.
I do not know how much memory is required to run Windows, but if you have it installed and running using Boot Camp then obviously your Mac already has sufficient RAM.
Once installed in VirtualBox, you will effectively have a Windows PC, and can do anything with it you could otherwise do with a PC. Windows will just run slower than it would natively as it does using Boot Camp. The only advantage is that you don't have to reboot to switch from one operating system to another.
I want to use Google Play Games Beta on Windows, I'm not completely sure if VirtualBox can help with that? Or is your idea saying to make second Windows inside the VirtualBox? If that's the case, won't this require a lot of memory? (I don't have that much to spare)
I wasn't the one who installed the Windows, the laptop was a gift from someone and Windows was installed on it. Do you know another way to enable virtualization? When I asked the question I hoped that there'd be a simpler solution since on non-mac laptops virtualization can be enabled from the BIOS as far, as I know, so I hoped there could be something similar on mac book.
You have a gifted MacBook Pro with Windows installed in Boot Camp. The Mac allows you to boot either into macOS, or directly into Windows, but not both concurrently. Your current RAM may be sufficient for the preceding scenario, but may not be sufficient, or the GPU sufficient to drive Windows and your beta game.
It sounds as though you do not have sufficient RAM to run macOS and a Virtual Machine and its guest concurrently, and it is well known that Virtual Machines are not gaming platforms regardless of the guest operating system. In the case of Virtualbox, its optional GPU (vram) setting is 256 MB. Forget about a Virtual Machine on that laptop.
You may require a non-Mac dedicated Windows platform with ample RAM and GPU support.
I didn't mean that my RAM isn't enough, I'm quite happy with it currently, I meant the SSD memory. I know that in the long-term I need a new laptop, but for the time being, I was hoping to find a way for my current laptop.
You would need 75 - 100 GB for Windows plus the additional storage for the beta game software and its requirements. With Boot Camp, you are running Windows on the native Mac hardware anyway so virtualization by any means should be a moot need.
Contact the Google Play Games Beta developer about requiring virtrualization issues and how to possibly disable that request when in Windows. I cannot help further with this third-party software issue.
"Hardware virtualization" is contradictory, at least on Macs. You can install any number of operating systems on Intel Macs; as many as you wish. Windows, Linux, others. They run natively.
Virtualization software runs within the host operating system; macOS in this case.
Presumably, Microsoft Windows can host other operating systems through virtualization software or perhaps other means available on Windows PCs, but I have no idea what PCs do.
DarklingEye wrote:
I didn't mean that my RAM isn't enough, I'm quite happy with it currently, I meant the SSD memory.
Ok, that's storage. Not to be confused with memory. Storage ≠ Memory. If you have Boot Camp, then some of that Mac's storage is allocated to it. You can remove that partition to reclaim it, and if that's what you want to do please write back for instructions.
I use Oracle VirtualBox.
There are other options with which I have no personal experience.
I'm not sure what simpler solution you are seeking.
On Intel Macs, you can run Microsoft Windows natively or in emulation. Or both; it's up to you.
Macs have no BIOS.
Do you know another way to enable virtualization?
To be clear, virtualization is not something that is enabled. Third party virtualization software is something that is installed.
I didn't mean software virtualization but hardware virtualization (Type 1). I know that Macs don't have BIOS, that's why I said that that's the case on non-mac laptops.
How can I enable virtualization?
