Unable to run a Virtual Machine due to Device/Credential Guard. Already tried disabling it...

[justintime4vmwa]

This is the error I am receiving:

VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Workstation can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard. Please visit http://www.vmware.com/go/turnoff_CG_DG for more details.

I have already tried the steps in the article below to disable device/credential guard:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-gu...

Please advise.

[bravo88]

Happened to me once after turning on windows sandbox after following the guide I had to do a system restore to known working date

[justintime4vmwa · Accepted solution]

I found the solution that fixed my issue.

Open cmd as an administrator, run below command:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

After that restart your host.

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[MichaelS01]

You guys are the greatest. I had tried a dozen or more remedies recommended by geeky Web sites and none had worked. I going forward again using the VMware Player's newest version.  And I learned some new things along the was such as how to use the Windows PowerShell as an administrator. My thanks.

[martinav]

Great post.  Disabling is not enuff.  The command was required, in an admin powershell

[colemarc]

I would like to add that as long as the command [systeminfo] in a CMD console displays the following VMWare Workstation will complain about Device/Credential Guard

"A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed."

Device/Credential Guard is only one of many things that require Hyper-V, another is Windows Sandbox and perhaps even Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Perhaps [bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off] is enough to get ride of Hyper-V, but I had to restart the host twice in order to make the above message disappear.

Before setting hypervisorlaunchtype off I disabled the following items in [Windows Features]:

• Containers
• Guarded Host
• Hyper-V
• Virtual Machine Platform
• Windows Defender Application Guard
• Windows Hypervisor Platform
• Windows Sandbox
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

Now [systeminfo] shows:

confirming that Hyper-V is actually disabled.