VMWare Workstation cannot run on Windows 10 after recent update to Windows 10

Question

I've Windows 10 Pro system, and use Hyper-V on that system. Due to the needs of device redirection doesn't works well with Hyper-V, I've installed VMWare Workstation 14.

I have to disable Hyper-V to make VMWare Workstation work, at beginning. It worked until last weekend , seems because of the QFE update. I just verified, it was not QFE but Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803 that triggered the problem with VMWare Workstation again.

1. After Windows update completed (after reboot), I tried to start a VM in VMWare. I get the error dialog complaining about Device/Credential Guard.

2. Following the instruction in this link: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146361, and after the reboot, I get another complaint about incompatibility with Hyper-V.

3. After reset the Hyper-V selection in Windows Feature or confirm that HyperV is not already removed, and reboot, the first error came back.

It gets in a loop of error complaining about Device Guard and complaining about Hyper-V for VMWare.

Solution 1

Ok, thanks to the answer from communities of VMWare: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/588526

The issue is now gone, by applying the following change:

1. Disable credential guard by using readiness tool from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53337, with this command: DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.2.ps1 -disable

2. Disable Hyper-V by using PowerShell command: Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V

3. Reboot and accept to boot without CG/DG.

Although I don't like that VMWare cannot work together with device guard from system, I get my VM working for the moment.

Solution 2

1- run cmd as admin

2- run : bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

3- reboot

let me knew if it works please

good luck

Solution 3

here are the few steps for you to solve this issue:

1. Disable the HvHost service (and any other services with prefix Hyper-V if needed) from windows TaskManager(Ctrl+Alt+Del)
2. use the tool from the official website
3. Uncompress the downloaded zip file to your own directory, take C:\DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.5 here for instance.

4. Run Windows PowerShell as admin, type the following two commands:

   cd C:\DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.5
.\DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.5.ps1 -Disable

5. Reboot

Solution 4

Adrian at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/cannot-disable-memory-integrity-core-isolation-in/29ac5ce4-30d2-47d1-ab17-734980fd287b says "I think it's a bug that this cannot be disabled via UI but fortunately it's possible through the registry by setting the following key to 0:"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity\Enabled

This worked for me as well [Windows 10 Pro Version 1803(OS Build 17134.112, VMWare Workstation 14 Pro Version 14.1.2]

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Comments

[Weishan Yang]

Thank you for your message. I'll try this out when I have time:)

[JackGrinningCat]

Thanks for the link that helped. I need to go further, vmware now wants that i delete the hyper-v role from the system. Need to check for that

[dghughes]

Microsoft Windows Hyper-V as a role is misleading it's a Type 1 hypervisor that takes over the system between the hardware and the OS, Windows then runs in Hyper-V. VMware Workstation is a Type 2 hypervisor (runs as an OS application) that should be able to run in Windows even if the host OS is managed by Hyper-V.

[Vadzim]

How to dual-boot both VMWare and Hyper-V: stackoverflow.com/a/43843318/603516