Vmware Workstation does not support nested virtualization on this host.

[psteharia]

Hello Eve Community users,

i am facing a problem in eve-ng community edition in which i am not able to power on eve-ng virtual machine on vmware workstation and it gives an error

VMware Workstation does not support nested
virtualization on this host.
Module 'HV power on failed,
Failed to start the virtual machine.

My pc configurations are intel core i5 14500 + 16GB Ram + MSI PRO B760M-A WiFi + Windows 11 Enterprise

What i have done so far is
1. checked virtualization is enabled in Bios. Updated bios to latest version.
2. Checked and disabled all services related to hyper-v from control panel using script. pasted below
@echo off
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
DISM /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V-All
DISM /Online /Disable-Feature:VirtualMachinePlatform
DISM /Online /Disable-Feature:WindowsHypervisorPlatform
DISM /Online /Disable-Feature:WindowsSandbox
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard" /v EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa" /v LsaCfgFlags /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
echo Restarting in 10 seconds...
timeout /t 10
shutdown /r /t 0
3. Core isolation from windows security is disabled.

4. can see in systeminfo that virtualization based security is "Running" but could not find which service is making it run.

3. found dgreadiness_v3.6.zip script which disables device guard and credential guard while system startup but it works only one time. after system reboot system goes in same state again and VM doesn't start.

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dgreadiness_v3.6.zip

if anyone knows how to solve this will be a great help. i am unable to learn without eve-ng right now.

Thanks in advance

PST

[Uldis (UD)]

It is because you read nothing
https://www.eve-ng.net/wp-content/uploa ... zation.pdf

and no wonder that your CPU does not supporting nested virtualization at all...
i5 intel CPU is super low HW for eve use