Hyper-V supported Windows guests
Observed content change
9 removed passages (about 80 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
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Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under CC BY 4.0. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.
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Sections to inspect
- Supported Windows guest operating systems for Hyper-V on Windows, Windows Server, and Azure Local
- Feedback
- Additional resources
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: dates and deadlines, prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 13 Oct 00:39 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 16 Feb 18:34 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 00:44 UTC
- Next check due
- 21 Oct 00:44 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of 13 Oct 00:39 UTC- 2 undated sections
- 1 with conditions
- 17 recorded changes
Requirements, exceptions and scope
Windows 11 requires an increased CPU instruction for installation and boot (POPCNT and SSE4.2). To meet these requirements in Hyper-V:…
On Windows Server 2025 clusters…
Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.
How this timeline changed
Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.
5 earlier changes
Observed history and review priority
Captured 13 Oct 00:39 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:11 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 0 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 hours.
Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.
Retained observations · 17
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC · 3 candidates
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC · 6 candidates
- 28 Oct 2025 14:52 UTC · 3 candidates
- 17 Oct 2025 15:55 UTC · 3 candidates
- 6 Aug 2025 14:00 UTC · 3 candidates
- 30 Apr 2025 10:22 UTC · 3 candidates
- 30 Apr 2025 10:04 UTC · 3 candidates
- 29 Apr 2025 22:21 UTC · 1 candidates
- 29 Apr 2025 16:39 UTC · 1 candidates
- 23 Apr 2025 09:48 UTC · 3 candidates
- 22 Apr 2025 16:31 UTC · 3 candidates
- 4 Mar 2025 17:00 UTC · 1 candidates
- 4 Mar 2025 16:51 UTC · 1 candidates
- 4 Mar 2025 16:42 UTC · 1 candidates
- 4 Mar 2025 16:40 UTC · 1 candidates
- 31 Jan 2025 19:40 UTC · 1 candidates
- 31 Jan 2025 19:38 UTC · 0 candidates
Microsoft's edits
History on GitHubCommits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:56 UTC.
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC · shown above
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026No field changes in the recorded history.
Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.
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