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Published Aug 27 2019 04:51 PM 78.1K Views
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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!

 

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Cheers,
Ben

25 Comments

So cool!
Will this turn up in a WIndows Insider build in the near future?

Copper Contributor
Great news, I have been hoping/waiting for this for a loooong time! Thx!
Copper Contributor

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.

Brass Contributor

Well done! Congratulations...

Copper Contributor

Cool!  Good to hear.

 

Copper Contributor

That's soo cool!

Copper Contributor

Great news. Hope this will come ASAP!

Copper Contributor

This is balsam for my ears :)

Copper Contributor

That's like the best info I've heard in a long time. I've always preferred VMWare to Hyper-V but since WSL came into existense in version 2 I completely deleted VMWare. Now is a chance to make a great comeback.

Copper Contributor

很期待!:hearteyes:

Copper Contributor

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?

Copper Contributor

You could always run VMWare on your Windows 10 PC (I certainly didn't have a problem with it!!) -- what you couldn't do is run it at the same time as something else that was using the vt ring.  So there really wasn't much push to run VMWare under Windows 10, as people that ran VMWare ran VMWare just fine and people that ran Hyper-V ran Hyper-V.  I'm just an oddity since I use both, and others. :)

 

And remember that Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation used two different types of virtualization, and now, I guess, VMWare will be a hybrid of the two. 

Copper Contributor
@BobComer I agree with you in most points but as a person whose company decided to completely uninstall vmware since wsl2 came into play, I think Vmware wasted too much time and should have taken measures earlier. I'm afraid most people who migrated to hyper v won't go back in fear of something similar happening in the future. I'm hoping that this will be addressed soon so I can use it at home though because I loved vmware's interface at the very least
Copper Contributor
I've been expecting this for some time (many years). So far it has not appeared on the VMware Beta site (no Tech Preview 2019). Any idea when it will be available to ordinary users like me who have been using VMware Workstation for 20 years and would be happy to give VMware money for an upgrade (although Workstation 15.5.1 works great).
Copper Contributor
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.
Copper Contributor
Alright, I found this: https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/01/vmware-workstation-tech-preview-20h1.html I cannot meet the minimum software requirements of Windows 10 20H1 (Insider Program version) though. I'll wait :)

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.

 

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@Martin Felkeryou can download the latest VMware workstation TP from here: official link

http://bit.ly/getworkstation-tp

https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/03/vmware-workstation-20h1-tech-preview-new-build-availabl...

in Windows settings, it shows the version 16

Copper Contributor

So, any news on that? we are almost on April 2020

Copper Contributor

Cool! Thats Good to hear. Well done! Congratulations... :smile: 

Copper Contributor

Microsoft, with this Device Guard and Credential Guard fiasco effectively put VMWare out of huge business. My company's enterprise group policies keep resetting DG/CG settings at every restart and I cannot properly use VMWare. VMware is very slow at releasing a version that works and other solutions like Hyper-V are very bad. Hyper-V is like Skype: a Microsoft tool that hasn't evolved for the last 10 years and is a nightmare to users.

VMWare, please do something, quickly!!

Skype is not evolving? have you tried the latest version? it basically has all the feature that other messengers like Whatsapp, Facebook and Telegram have plus more.

 

VMware 16 which is technical preview works Windows device guard and other virtual security features enabled in OS in 20H1 Build

Copper Contributor

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.

Hi @kwinz 

could you please explain more about virtual machine that the root Windows 10 runs in? are you referring to the virtual security features of Windows 10?

like WDAG, Windows Sandbox ?

Copper Contributor

@shailensobhee 

I installed the vmware preview on build 1809 by extracting the installer with "/x" and manually install the vmware*msi package from %temp% folder

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