VMware Workstation Now Supports Host Hyper-V Mode!

[Zongmin]

Hi all,

With the release of VMware Workstation/Player 15.5.5, we are very excited and proud to announce support for Windows hosts with Hyper-V mode enabled! You no longer have to choose between running VMware Workstation and Windows features like WSL, Device Guard and Credential Guard.

As you may know, this is a joint project from both Microsoft and VMware. You can also check out Microsoft’s blog here.

A big congratulation to the engineering teams from both Microsoft and VMware. This is a big milestone for both sides. We will still be working together on bugs reported by our customers, improving performance, and adding features based on customers’ requests.

A big thank you to our customers, to our passionate users! Thank you for being patient! Thank you for your valuable feedback! You are the only reason we have such a big joint project!

Please feel free to check details from VMware Workstation blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/05/vmware-workstation-now-supports-hyper-v-mode.html​

Enjoy running VMware Workstation/Player 15.5.5 on the latest Windows 10 20H1 with or without Hyper-V!

— The VMware Workstation Team

[BenDorman]

I still can't get this to work - I have  the error 

"virtualized intel vt-x ept is not supported on this platform"

when Hyper-V is enabled:

OS is Windows 10 Pro 20H2

VMWare is 16.1.0-17198959

Any more information required?

[ender_]

Nested virtualisation is not supported with Hyper-V on the host – you'll have to disable it in the VM settings.