Running a VM on a VM (Paperspace)

[minusatwelfth]

I'm currently renting a Paperspace VM (a cloud vm service) and it's running Win Server 2016. When I try to start VMWare 14 on it, I get an error: "VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Workstatio"

I have tried various methods to disable/remove Hyper-V but the error message still persists (Windows Features says "Hyper-V(Not Installed)"). . At this point I'm thinking maybe the Paperspace VM itself is running on Hyper-V technology or something.

What are some possible solutions or alternative setups? Would it work on a Win 7/2008 Host VM? Or a Mac OS VM?

What I'm trying to do is run a graphics test program 24/7, on a cloud computer. But the thing is, it needs to have fairly large, static screen resolution (not anamorphic as my monitor is small), and Windows 7. So I figured the only way to do this is a Vm-inside-VM. If there is some other way, I'd be glad to know it.

Thanks!

[bluefirestorm]

Don't know if this still applies for Workstation 14.x, but you could try adding the line

vmx.allowNested = "TRUE"

to C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini

That is according to this old document Running Nested VMs

[minusatwelfth]

What version of VMWare DID it work for?

[bluefirestorm]

I have no idea which version(s) it worked for. That document, while still useful in many circumstances and a good read for understanding VMware nested virtualisation, is also getting old and stale as the author of that document no longer works for VMware. Many changes have occurred with VMware ESXi, Workstation and Hyper-V itself since the document was last updated.

You have nothing to lose to give that setting a try while having everything else to gain if it works.

[minusatwelfth]

Thanks. It actually worked, but only on a Host OS win 7 x64. In Host Os Win 10 x64 I did not have permission/access to edit config.ini.

Right now there is no internet connection though