VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible
After I upgraded my workstation to Windows 10, I am no longer able to power on guest OS on VMware operating system and received error as below
‘VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Workstation’
After some searching, I found that it is caused by ‘hypervisorlaunchtype’ on windows loader is set to ‘Auto’.
Disable Hyper-V
To disable Hyper-V role, follow the steps below
- Open ‘cmd’ prompt with elevated privileges i.e.) with Administrator access
- To disable Hyper-V, run following command
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
- Restart computer
Enable Hyper-V
To enable Hyper-V, follow the steps below
- Open ‘cmd’ prompt with elevated privileges i.e.) with Administrator access
- To disable Hyper-V, run following command
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
- Restart computer
References
- BCDEdit – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff542202%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
- BCDEdit FAQ’s – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721886%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
- BCDEdit command line options – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/cc709667%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
- To run Hyper-V and VMware on same machine – https://jorgequestforknowledge.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/using-both-microsoft-hyper-v-and-vmware-workstation-on-the-same-machine/