Vmware Workstation Pro Compatibility

[Jermale Kunstler]

Idid follow the link and went through the steps, on step 4 I need to mount a volume using "mountvol". when I try to mount a volume using mountvol X: \\?\Volume5593b5bd-0000-0000-0000-c0f373000000\ it keeps saying The directory is not empty. I even created a partition with 2GB and still the same message.

From here, we now have a protected mode where we can run security sensitive operations. At the time of writing, we support three capabilities that can reside here: the Local Security Authority (LSA), and Code Integrity control functions in the form of Kernel Mode Code Integrity (KMCI) and the hypervisor code integrity control itself, which is called Hypervisor Code Integrity (HVCI).

When these capabilities are handled by Trustlets in VSM, the Host OS simply communicates with them through standard channels and capabilities inside of the OS. While this Trustlet-specific communication is allowed, having malicious code or users in the Host OS attempt to read or manipulate the data in VSM will be significantly harder than on a system without this configured, providing the security benefit.

I'm still not convinced that Hyper-V is The Thing for me, even with last year's Docker trials and tribulations and I guess you won't want to switch very frequently, so rather than creating a new boot and confirming the boot default or waiting out the timeout with every boot I switch on demand in the console in admin mode by

For those who might be encountering this issue with recent changes to your computer involving Hyper-V, you'll need to disable it while using VMWare or VirtualBox. They don't work together. Windows Sandbox and WSL 2 need the Hyper-V Hypervisor on, which currently breaks VMWare. Basically, you'll need to run the following commands to enable/disable Hyper-V services on next reboot.

You'll need to reboot after that. I've written a PowerShell script that will toggle this for you and confirm it with dialog boxes. It even self-elevates to Administrator using this technique so that you can just right click and run the script to quickly change your Hyper-V mode. It could easily be modified to reboot for you as well, but I personally didn't want that to happen. Save this as hypervisor.ps1 and make sure you've run Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned so that you can run PowerShell scripts.

I don't know why but version 3.6 of DG_Readiness_Tool didn't work for me.After I restarted my laptop problem still persisted.I was looking for solution and finally I came across version 3.7 of the tool and this time problem went away.Here you can find latest powershell script:

I also struggled a lot with this issue. The answers in this thread were helpful but were not enough to resolve my error. You will need to disable Hyper-V and Device guard like the other answers have suggested. More info on that can be found in here.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\LsaCfgFlagsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceGuard\EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurityHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceGuard\RequirePlatformSecurityFeatures

With the release of VMware Workstation/Player 15.5. 5 or >, we arevery excited and proud to announce support for Windows hosts withHyper-V mode enabled! As you may know, this is a joint project fromboth Microsoft and VMware

In my case I was using windows 1909, Device Guard was disabled and so was the Hyper V. While trying docker I installed and enabled wsl2. After uninstalling wsl from control panel and disabling it from powershell my vmware started working again.

If you are someone who maintains an open customized "Run as administrator" command prompt or powershell command line window at all the times you can optionally setup the following aliases / macros to simplify executing the commands mentioned by @gue22 for simply disabling hyper-v hypervisor when needing to use vmware player or workstation and then enabling it again when done.

With the above in place you just type "hpvenb" [ hypervisor enabled at boot ], "hpvdis" [ hypervisor disabled at boot ] and "bcdl" [ boot configuration devices list ] commands to execute the on, off, list commands.

Well Boys and Girls after reading through the release notes for build 17093 in the wee small hours of the night, I have found the change point that affects my VMware Workstation VM's causing them not to work, it is the Core Isolation settings under Device Security under windows security (new name for windows defender page) in settings.

By default it is turned on, however when I turned it off and restarted my pc all my VMware VM's resumed working correctly. Perhaps a by device option could be incorporated in the next build to allow us to test individual devices / Apps responses to allow the core isolation to be on or off per device or App as required .

Open Registry Editor, now Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard. Add a new DWORD value named EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity and set it to 0 to disable it.Next Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA. Add a new DWORD value named LsaCfgFlags and set it to 0 to disable it.

Aware of Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Desktop to OVA exports. But there are compatibility issues switching from VMDK to OVA, xen-utilties vs open-vm-tools, etc. The current impediment preventing me from switching from ESXi/workstation is the tight integration between the two. There are no issues with licensing, as the free ESXi licenses are fine for home use.

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