{"id":1483,"date":"2016-12-16T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:15:40","slug":"windows-8-1-use-vmware-and-hyper-v-same-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/en\/windows-8-1-use-vmware-and-hyper-v-on-same-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1: use VMware and Hyper-V on same machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a Windows 8.1 operating system with Hyper-V role enabled, maybe to run Visual Studio mobile emulators for Android and Windows Phone, the execution of VMware Player or Workstation rises the following error:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>VMware Player and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only solution to solve this problem is to disable Hyper-V when you need to use VMware, thus allowing an alternative use of the two products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To do this, simply open an Administrator command prompt (cmd.exe) and run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">bcdedit \/set hypervisorlaunchtype off<\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once executed this command, you need to <strong>restart your computer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In case of <strong>issues with VMware virtual adapters<\/strong>, you should delete Hyper-V virtual switches by opening the <strong>Hyper-V Manager<\/strong> and clicking on &#8220;Virtual Switch Manager&#8230;&#8221; in the &#8220;Actions&#8221; tab on the right side of the screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1494\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hyperv-vmware_01_en.png\" alt=\"hyperv-vmware_01_en\" width=\"355\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hyperv-vmware_01_en.png 355w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hyperv-vmware_01_en-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hyperv-vmware_01_en-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subsequently, to re-enable Hyper-V and continue to use it as an alternative to VMware, you just need to execute the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">bcdedit \/set hypervisorlaunchtype auto<\/pre>\n<p>A\u00a0machine reboot is required as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another option is to permanently disable Hyper-V on physical machine and run it inside VMware guest machine&#8230; but that&#8217;s another story, new article will follow!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to run VMware Player or Workstation on a Windows 8.1 operating system with Hyper-V role enabled with a simple reboot of the machine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[121,122,72],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows","tag-hyper-v","tag-vmware","tag-windows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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