Failed to start the virtual machine

[devicemanager]

Recently had to restart my computer due to windows updates and accidentally shut the system down while the vm was running.

After reboot I noticed the server wasn't running and can not start it with the above error.  Its running on workstation 10.1 and I have attached the log file.  Also deleted the .lck files but still no luck.

Restarted all the services, they seem to stop and start fine. 

Please help Thank you!

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

2015-05-17T10:31:14.613-04:00| vmx| I120: [msg.vmx.nestedHyperV] VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Workstation.

It looks like the system started with Hyper-V enabled. Do you have another boot option with Hyper-V disabled?

André

[devicemanager]

No the host is a windows 8.1 - and the vm is server 2012 r2 - but I do not have any hyper V services installed.

[devicemanager]

I did see the service was there and running - disabled it and still wont run?

[admin]

Workstation can only run 32-bit guests with binary translation when running nested under Hyper-V, because Hyper-V doesn't virtualize the hardware-assisted virtualization features of the physical CPU.  If you'd like to run in this mode, at a severe performance penalty, add the following option to your VM's configuration file:

vmx.allowNested = TRUE

Otherwise, remove the Hyper-V role from the system and reboot.

[devicemanager]

No, I want VMware all the way.  Are you saying I need to not only disable it but remove it completely? 

[a_p_]

Other that to completely removing Hyper-V, you could create a secondary boot option, which allows you to start the host with or without Hyper-V (see e.g. Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1 - Scott Hansel...)

André

[devicemanager]

That worked thank you all for your help!