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trying to use VM under WMWare but cannot
In order to run Win 7 guest as a VM in Wmware Workstation 15 player on
my Win 10 (host) laptop, I installed Workstation 15. However, even before complete, I got a warning about probably not being able to run any VM's. I tried to install Win 7 anyway, but upon installation, I get the following messages: This host supports Intel VT-x, but the Intel VT-x implementation is incompatible with VMware Player. This host does not support **Intel EPT** hardware assisted MMU virtualization. This host does not support virtualzing real mode. The Intel "VMX Unrestricted Guest" feature is necessary to run this virtual machine on an Intel processor. Module "CPUIDEarly" power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine. So, lots of messages. IIRC, I used WMWare a few years back on a far less capable laptop running Win 7 host with Win XP as a VM. There's no way I shouldn't be able to run it now on a much newer laptop. I am using a Quad core Dell Inspiron 1545 with 500 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. I need to get this operating as soon as possible, so would appreciate any thoughts. If I were to take a guess, I'd say I need an earlier version of VMWare and, if so, which version? Thank you |
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On 09/03/2019 17:59, JBI wrote:
In order to run Win 7 guest as a VM in Wmware Workstation This is not the place to ask Windows 7 questions. Please get your brain repaired so that you know where to ask such questions in the future. Path: news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JBI Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: trying to use VM under WMWare but cannot Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 12:59:12 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 17:59:13 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0032dcd20e1f7cdf9039a7cc3c00f57d"; logging-data="32638"; "; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/9SSWa6YS2ypxMZ1W9sljx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xys0EvoCEEnRYf1IjCF6xKghJUE= Content-Language: en-US X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Xref: news.mixmin.net alt.comp.os.windows-10:81496 -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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JBI wrote:
In order to run Win 7 guest as a VM in Wmware Workstation 15 player on my Win 10 (host) laptop, I installed Workstation 15. However, even before complete, I got a warning about probably not being able to run any VM's. I tried to install Win 7 anyway, but upon installation, I get the following messages: This host supports Intel VT-x, but the Intel VT-x implementation is incompatible with VMware Player. This host does not support **Intel EPT** hardware assisted MMU virtualization. This host does not support virtualzing real mode. The Intel "VMX Unrestricted Guest" feature is necessary to run this virtual machine on an Intel processor. Module "CPUIDEarly" power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine. So, lots of messages. IIRC, I used WMWare a few years back on a far less capable laptop running Win 7 host with Win XP as a VM. There's no way I shouldn't be able to run it now on a much newer laptop. I am using a Quad core Dell Inspiron 1545 with 500 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. I need to get this operating as soon as possible, so would appreciate any thoughts. If I were to take a guess, I'd say I need an earlier version of VMWare and, if so, which version? Thank you The CPU you have (not mentioned) has the VT-x firmware code but the BIOS on the motherboard may not support it. If you go into the BIOS settings, is there a setting to enable/disable VT-x? I've used VMware Player on hosts where the BIOS did not support VT-x. VMWare Player will then use software emulation because hardware assisted VM is not available from the BIOS/hardware. It's probably been around 4 years since I last used VMware Player (or VirtualBox). Perhaps VMware decided to stop supporting software emulation since those hosts where it would get used would be very hold and susceptible to several vulnerabilities. Since it's been awhile, maybe I'm confusing VMMs (Virtual Machine Managers) and it's VirtualBox that had/has the software emulation of VM firmware when the CPU or BIOS don't support it. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003944 https://www.tactig.com/enable-intel-...re-virtualbox/ Looks like your hardware won't support hardware-assisted VM or it has not been enabled. |
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Try an older VMWare Player version. I`m still on VMWare Player 12.5.9
because the newer ones lost compatibility to older processors. Download of 12.5.9: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/det...524&rPId=20840 |
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On 3/9/19 4:02 PM, Michael Logies wrote:
Try an older VMWare Player version. I`m still on VMWare Player 12.5.9 because the newer ones lost compatibility to older processors. Download of 12.5.9: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/det...524&rPId=20840 This is what I ended up doing, going with an older version. However, the first trial program I installed did install ok, but refused to run I assume because it somehow detected a virtual and not real environment. |
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trying to use VM under WMWare but cannot
JBI wrote:
In order to run Win 7 guest as a VM in Wmware Workstation 15 player on my Win 10 (host) laptop, I installed Workstation 15. However, even before complete, I got a warning about probably not being able to run any VM's. I tried to install Win 7 anyway, but upon installation, I get the following messages: This host supports Intel VT-x, but the Intel VT-x implementation is incompatible with VMware Player. This host does not support **Intel EPT** hardware assisted MMU virtualization. This host does not support virtualzing real mode. The Intel "VMX Unrestricted Guest" feature is necessary to run this virtual machine on an Intel processor. Module "CPUIDEarly" power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine. So, lots of messages. IIRC, I used WMWare a few years back on a far less capable laptop running Win 7 host with Win XP as a VM. There's no way I shouldn't be able to run it now on a much newer laptop. I am using a Quad core Dell Inspiron 1545 with 500 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. I need to get this operating as soon as possible, so would appreciate any thoughts. If I were to take a guess, I'd say I need an earlier version of VMWare and, if so, which version? Thank you This utility tells you about the instruction set. And helps you figure out whether Win8/Win10 will install. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/coreinfo The Intel PIU on the other hand, can give info on how your virtual machine hosting will work out. Intel actually has a couple generations of utility, and there's another one to tell you about your Pentium III. Note that this version needs the latest .NET version, plus it will make you install some Visual Studio Runtime, turning what should have been an easy job, into a chore. And it also runs as admin, because all it's really doing is executing some privileged CPUID instructions or the like. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...indows-Version Here is a picture of me checking whether the machine is "ready for anything". https://i.postimg.cc/KjRhgzT8/CPU-Te...-Intel-PIU.gif ******* You have two choices. Take a look through the VMWare preferences and see if some of this rubbish can be switched off. If not, go VirtualBox. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Windows 10, for some SKUs, has Hyper-V, but it requires EPT too on the consumer OSes. The thing I remember reading, is EPT somehow helped a VM access a video card, or somehow helped with gameplay on a multi-use machine. Whereas on a Windows Server OS, where no games are played, no special optimization is required for the video card. The BIOS will likely have a switch to turn Hyperthreading on and off. As well as a VT-X switch. I don't remember seeing a second switch to enable or disable EPT. And as for the latest generations of rubbish security features (one of which has been exploited by black hats!), I don't know a thing about them. Apparently, one of the features provides a "secure enclave" - once the black hats get in there, they're "bulletproof" :-/ You can't make this stuff up. Paul |
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JBI wrote:
On 3/9/19 4:02 PM, Michael Logies wrote: Try an older VMWare Player version. I`m still on VMWare Player 12.5.9 because the newer ones lost compatibility to older processors. Download of 12.5.9: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/det...524&rPId=20840 This is what I ended up doing, going with an older version. However, the first trial program I installed did install ok, but refused to run I assume because it somehow detected a virtual and not real environment. The Neat Video Plugin does that. The plugin itself isn't all that wonderful, but the installer is... amazing. It detects VM environments and Linux WINE, and stops installation. So the technology is available, to limit installation of Windows software to only physical machines. Paul |
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trying to use VM under WMWare but cannot
On Sat, 09 Mar 2019 19:06:04 -0500, Paul
wrote: So the technology is available, to limit installation of Windows software to only physical machines. Not much technology... Search for system information in Windows. It will show VMware. Some virus don`t run in a VM to hide themselves from investigations... Regards M. |
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