Sounds like you have enabled the V-in-V (aka Nested Virtualization) options for that VM. There has been a thread ealier in these forums about that as well.

Have a look at this thread:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Virtualized-Intel-VT-x-EPT-Error/td-p/28...

Maybe it's solutions may work for you as well.