Showing posts with label Incompatible Hypervisor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Incompatible Hypervisor. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 May 2015

You are running VMware Player through an incompatible hypervisor.

Recently I tried to run a VMWare image inside a Windows VM which is running on a Parallels in a Macbook Pro.

I accessed the Windows VM from mac using Parallels. Then I tried to access a VMWare image from the Windows using a VMWare Player. When I tried to run the VMWare Image, I got the below error:
"You are running VMware Player through an incompatible hypervisor.  You cannot power on a virtual machine until this hypervisor is disabled."

Fix:
Open the .vmx file in a text editor and add the below line at the end.
 vmx.allowNested = "TRUE"  

Ref: VMWare Community: Running Nested VMs

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