The document discusses an error received when trying to run a VMware Player virtual machine on a system with the Hyper-V role enabled in Windows 8.1. The error message states that Hyper-V and VMware Player are incompatible and the Hyper-V role must be removed. The document provides the workaround of disabling Hyper-V using the bcdedit command so that VMware Player can be used, and then re-enabling Hyper-V with the same command after using VMware Player.
The document discusses an error received when trying to run a VMware Player virtual machine on a system with the Hyper-V role enabled in Windows 8.1. The error message states that Hyper-V and VMware Player are incompatible and the Hyper-V role must be removed. The document provides the workaround of disabling Hyper-V using the bcdedit command so that VMware Player can be used, and then re-enabling Hyper-V with the same command after using VMware Player.
The document discusses an error received when trying to run a VMware Player virtual machine on a system with the Hyper-V role enabled in Windows 8.1. The error message states that Hyper-V and VMware Player are incompatible and the Hyper-V role must be removed. The document provides the workaround of disabling Hyper-V using the bcdedit command so that VMware Player can be used, and then re-enabling Hyper-V with the same command after using VMware Player.
I have the Hyper-V role enabled on Windows 8.1 for VS Express Windows Phone Emulation.
The problem is this error when I try to run a VMWare Player virtual machine:
VMware Player and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Player.
The workaround is to disable Hyper-V so that you can use VMWare.
To do this open an Administrator Command Prompt,
enter this command and then reboot: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off Hyper-V can be enabled again with this command (which also requires a reboot):