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VMware Workstation and Hyper-V – Working Together

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Ben Armstrong
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Aug 27, 2019

Yesterday VMware demonstrated a pre-release version of VMware Workstation with early support for the Windows Hypervisor Platform in the What's New in VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation session at VMworld.

 

In Windows 10 we have introduced many security features that utilize the Windows Hypervisor.  Credential Guard, Windows Defender Application Guard, and Virtualization Based Security all utilize the Windows Hypervisor.  At the same time, new Developer features like Windows Server Containers and the WSL 2 both utilize the Windows Hypervisor.

 

This has made it challenging for our customers who need to use VMware Workstation.  Historically, it has not be possible to run VMware Workstation when Hyper-V was enabled.

 

In the future – users will be able to run all of these applications together.  This means that users of VMware workstation will be able to take advantage of all the security enhancements and developer features that are available in Windows 10.  Microsoft and VMware have been collaborating on this effort, and I am really excited to be a part of this moment!

 

 

Cheers,
Ben

Updated Aug 27, 2019
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  • DidierW's avatar
    DidierW
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 28, 2019
    Great news, I have been hoping/waiting for this for a loooong time! Thx!
  • Kenya Graham's avatar
    Kenya Graham
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 28, 2019

    I'm sure that VMware will lose some of its hypervisor capability and have to concede to Microsoft hyper-v hypervisor. It's beyond making VMware compatible with the device guard when it wants to control the hardware. I believe that VMware all just have to learn to plug into the Microsoft's hypervisor.

  • TheManjia's avatar
    TheManjia
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 15, 2019

    Are you really celebrating what should have been a working feature since the beginning? you should just be ashamed that 2 years have passed with VMWare basically not working on any windows 10 machine, how the **bleep** did your business model kept up until now?

  • shailensobhee's avatar
    shailensobhee
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 10, 2020
    Hello all, 2020 is here. What's the latest status? My latest findings: The latest (at the time of writing) VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.1 build-15018445 does not work with Windows 10 (Enterprise) version 1809 build 17763.973. Thanks and regards, Shailen.
  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Mar 13, 2020

    Hi,

    I'm on Windows 10 insider fast ring build 19582 and installed the latest VMware workstation preview, I'm getting this error and VMs are very slow in performance. I can't figure out what to do to fix it.

     

     

  • kwinz's avatar
    kwinz
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 17, 2020

    Dear Microsoft Team,

     

    could you please additionally expose virtualized VT-x by default?

    Same as Set-VMProcessor -VMName <VMName> -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

    but for the virtual machine that the root Windows 10 runs in.

     

    This would be another way to make Hyper-V compatible with more virtualization software. And it wouldn't even need them to change their backend.