VMWARE conflicting with the windows 10 virtual machine platform feature

[innodaddy]

Hello guys.

It seems vmware and docker cannot run properly on the same machine. I'm using a windows 10 machine and vmware to run my gns3 images for networking and its been working fine for a while. Now I want to run prebuilt network automation containers on docker to intergrate with gns3/ vmware but then the problem is I must disable the virtual machine platform on windows 10 for  vmware to run properly otherwise it starts throwing an error that my machine doesn't support VT-x and fails to run. The moment I turn off the feature docker starts complaining and it fails to start as well . Has anyone ever encountered such a problem

[ender_]

This is a known limitation – VMWare Workstation can use Hyper-V to run virtual machines, however Hyper-V virtualisation doesn't support nested VMs, so you have to disable "Virtualise Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI".

[innodaddy]

Thanx for the response but the main reason I am using vmware is the capability to support nested VM  so I cant do anything with this feature turned off. I have also disabled Hyper-V and  I'm using WSL 2 for docker . I am not so conversant with windows but I assume the "virtual machine platform" feature is only available on windows 10.

[ender_]

WSL2 requires Hyper-V, so you can't use it on the same host as VMWare (you can use it in a VM, if you have nested virt enabled).

You can follow the instructions in KB2146361 to completely disable Hyper-V on the host.