Compatibility Issue VMWare Workstation and Hyper-V

VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not

compatible
How to, Troubleshooting, VMWareDecember 17, 20151 Comment

After I upgraded my workstation to Windows 10, I am no longer able to power on guest OS on

VMware operating system and received error as below

VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the
system before running VMware Workstation

After some searching, I found that it is caused by hypervisorlaunchtype on windows loader is

set to Auto.

Disable Hyper-V

To disable Hyper-V role, follow the steps below

Open cmd prompt with elevated privileges i.e.) with Administrator access

To disable Hyper-V, run following command

Disable Hyper-V
Default
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype o

1
2 bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
3

Restart computer

Enable Hyper-V
To enable Hyper-V, follow the steps below

Open cmd prompt with elevated privileges i.e.) with Administrator access

To disable Hyper-V, run following command

Enable Hyper-V
Default
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype a

1
2 bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
3

Restart computer