VMWare – Virtual machine – Power On – vmware workstation and devicecredential guard are not compatible. vmware workstation can be run after disabling device/credential guard.

Installed VMWare pro on the Windows Server 2016 Machine and created a VM. When tried to Power-On the VM, faced the below exception.

vmware workstation and devicecredential guard are not compatible. vmware workstation can be run after disabling device/credential guard

On the link, which VMWare gave, has a clean step by step. But, again, I could not make the MountVol command to work. Hence, the alternative commands are as follows.

1. Remove the Hyper-V from the Server Manager -> Features.

2. Go to Local Computer Policy

a. From the Run -> gpedit.msc

b. On the Local Group Policy window, go to Device Guard as shown in the path below.

c. Double click on “Turn On Virtualization Based Security” and select the Disabled Option.

3. Then open the Command Prompt. Type the below commands.

 bcdedit /create {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} /d "DebugTool" /application osloader
 
 bcdedit /set {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} path "\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\SecConfig.efi"
 
 bcdedit /set {bootmgr} bootsequence {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215}
 
 bcdedit /set {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} loadoptions DISABLE-LSA-ISO,DISABLE-VBS
 
 bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
 

4. Do a Restart.

5. Start the VMWare and the VM in it.

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.