


(Get-CimInstance win32_processor).VirtualizationFirmwareEnabled You can also check to see if the BIOS firmware has virtualization enabled by looking in the CIM_Processor class. When I run the PowerShell commands you shared (either of them) on my machine with Hyper-V present, even when running as a standard, non-admin user, I get True back for both. More on that history and the distinctions here. So, of course, creating one new standard resulted in a bunch of different implementations, which are basically their own standard.īut otherwise CIM and WMI can be thought of as different gateways to the same information for Windows computers.

CIM and WMI are a long tale but the short summary is that WMI is a Microsoft implementation of the OMI Standards defined by the DMTF, the Distributed Management Task Force, to come up with an industry wide standard.
