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windows server 2022 - vmware workstation and hyper-v are not compatible

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I cannot launch a virtual machine with vmware workstation. I've tried to disable everything in server, with no success (hyper-v feature in windows, device guard etc, and powershell commands also). The only thing left is at the bios level, to disable Secure Boot/hyper-v in UEFI/BIOS settings, I guess. Can AWS disable Secure Boot/hyper-v in UEFI/BIOS settings?

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Compute
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Amazon EC2
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English
asked a year ago572 views
3 Answers
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You are looking at Nested Virtualisation. Most EC2 instances are VMs that don’t support nested virtualization. To get access to the bare hardware, you need a metal instance type. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/announcing-general-availability-of-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances/

A blog which touches on this https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-a-cloud-in-the-cloud-running-apache-cloudstack-on-amazon-ec2-part-1/

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answered a year ago
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Hey...Luis

To resolve this, AWS doesn’t allow changes to the UEFI/BIOS settings directly. However, to use nested virtualization (like VMware within a VM), you need an EC2 bare metal instance.

Bare metal instances give direct access to the hardware, which supports nested virtualization. You can review AWS's EC2 bare metal instances here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/announcing-general-availability-of-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances/

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answered a year ago
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reviewed a year ago
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I am facing the same issue on a bare metal hardware.

answered a year ago

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