Since the introduction of Hyper-V, including Credential Guard and Device Guard, enabling any of these features prevented VMware Workstation from launching virtual machines.

You can also check out Microsoft’s blog here. This might or might not fit your specific use case, but I figure it might be good to know about it.With the release of VMware Workstation/Player 15.5.5, we are very excited and proud to announce support for Windows hosts with Hyper-V mode enabled! As you may know, this is a joint project from both Microsoft and VMware. Vimarun is designed for automatically running your VM on start of your host as well as having it shut down when your host shuts down. This is where I talk about my own product called vimarun. If that's the case and depending on your actual need, there might actually be an alternative solution which would allow you to continue using VMware Workstation 16. Next is to uninstall VMware Workstation 16, reboot and install VMware Workstation 15 again.ĭownloads of the last VMware Workstation 15.x version are here if you need them:įrom the sounds of it you are using Windows. Set Hardware compatibility to 'Workstation 15.x' Select your VM -> right click -> Manage -> Change hardware compatiblity

Then for each VM make sure the hardware compatibility of the VM is set to Workstation 15.x or lower.

If you have snapshots open then it is best to delete the open snapshots (not required, but advised). If you want to downgrade to Workstation 15 then the way to do so is to shutdown -not suspend- all your virtual machines.

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