{"id":89,"date":"2016-02-04T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-02-04T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T06:02:29","slug":"how-to-run-windows-server-2012-hyper-v-on-vmware-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/how-to-run-windows-server-2012-hyper-v-on-vmware-workstation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to run Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V on VMware Workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently needed to create a new virtual machine, however with this virtual machine I needed to demo Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V enabled. Since I run VMware Workstation as my hypervisor on my laptop, I needed to run a hypervisor within a hypervisor.<\/p>\n

Installing Windows Server 2012 was no problem, however when I tried to add the Hyper-V server role I received an error<\/p>\n

\"AddRoles1\"
\nCheck Hyper-V and click next
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AddRoles2\"
\nI then click Add Feature and…..<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AddRoles3\"
\nThis is where things failed. Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running.<\/a><\/p>\n

By default, you cannot install a hypervisor under another hypervisor. However there is a work around. First you to power down your VM and edit the .vmx file for that VM. You will need to add a two lines of code, save the file and then startup the VM.<\/p>\n

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = “FALSE”
\nmce.enable = “TRUE”<\/p>\n

\"Edit_vmx_file\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Once I edited the VM and restarted and tried to add the Hyper-V role, I received another error regarding my CPU type. Hyper-V cannot be installed: The processor does not have required virtualization capabilities.<\/p>\n

\"Error\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To correct this I needed to again power down the VM and edit the virtual machine settings, specifically, the processor values.<\/p>\n

\"vmware_changes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Once I change the preferred mode to “Intel VT-x\/EPT or AMD-V\/RVI” and checked the box for “Virtualize Intel VT-x\/EPT or AMD-V\/RVI” I was able to successfully add the Hyper-V role to my VM and start provisioning additional VM’s under Hyper-V.<\/p>\n

\"hyperv\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you experience any of these issues then I hope this post solves your issues like it did mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently needed to create a new virtual machine, however with this virtual machine I needed to demo Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V enabled. Since I run VMware Workstation as my hypervisor on my laptop, I needed to run a hypervisor within a hypervisor. Installing Windows Server 2012 was no problem, however when I tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,22],"tags":[27,25,26,28,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}