Thursday, 14 November 2019

VMware Workstation unable to start

Software : VMware Workstation 15, Windows 10 Pro and host OS Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows XP SP3.

Hardware : Intel i5-6400 2.70Ghz, 16GB, ASUS B150 PRO GAMING D3
When the host Win 7 or Win XP is power on, an error message pop up saying

'This host supports Intel VT-x, but Intel VT-x is disabled'

A further google search in https://www.howtogeek.com/213795/how-to-enable-intel-vt-x-in-your-computers-bios-or-uefi-firmware/ show that modern CPUs include hardware virtualization features that help accelerate virtual machines created in VirtualBox, VMware, Hyber-V and other apps. But this features aren't always enable by default especially on Intel CPUs.

For this case the VMware hardware acceleration features Intel VT-x built into the Intel CPUs needs to be enable in the ASUS BIOS.

Finally turning VT-x on in the BIOS manage to start the hosted OS.


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