How do you get HyperV working inside vmware workstation 8?
I purchased new AMD FX series (FX-6100) CPU, I installed
Windows 2008 R2 on VMware workstation then installed Hyper-V role inside it, but I failed
to start VM because it was saying you need to enable AMD-V technology or it is
missing, I enabled the feature in BIOS and in virtual machine settings
itself.
But I was still facing below error when tried to start VM on
Hyper-V manager.
After some googling on internet I found very useful article
to run HyperV inside Vmware Workstation.
Source:
followed the steps and done the necessary changes in .VMX
file, added hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE" and
tried starting VM again (Shutdown
windows 2008 R2 VM and then changed settings), again the same above error, I
tried reinstalling and installing all
the things again, (OS, vmware workstation, VM), after frustrating 2-3 hours same
error again and again. Tried many softwares to determine whether my CPU support
all the virtualization features or not, everything was green
Sources
from every above
softwares (inside VM and on desktop) it was clearly showing my CPU is suitable for
Hyper-v. I went to microsoft site to check what are the requirements for HyperV
and found solution.
There is a AVX feature in new
CPUs (Intel and AMD) which is not supported by HyperV. to check this feature
you can use tool from Coreinfo (from Microsoft Sysinternals) or CPUID.
There is a * (star) in front of the features (instructions)
means it is present and supported and - (dash) means they are not supported or
not present.
To disable AVX run command from (in VM where you installed
windows 2008 r2) CMD "bcdedit /set xsavedisable 1" or install patch http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2517374&kbln=en-us. Either run patch or run command.
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In my case I ran only above command inside the VM, didn't install patch.
After all the settings done. I felt like piece of cake.
