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Conflict between VMware workstation player and Windows Hyper-V

  • 1.  Conflict between VMware workstation player and Windows Hyper-V

    Posted Feb 04, 2024 11:50 PM

    Hi,

    I've been using a local VMware workstation player VM for personal computing but I decided to switch over to Windows Hyper-V for speed and potentially GPU passthrough. I got Hyper-V running but I'm not able to connect to any VM I create in it. My VMware VM has also started having weird problems, though it still mostly works. I thought I'd just misconfigured Hyper-V somehow but none of the solutions online have worked or even seemed very applicable to my problems.

    I read though that different hypervisors could conflict with each other and that VMware actually made you disable Hyper-V if you want to install it with Hyper-V active. It doesn't seem like Windows makes you do the same in the opposite direction though.

    Several questions:

    1) Is this likely the problem with why both VM-makers are acting up (moreso with Hyper-V)?

    2) If so, how do I get rid of VMware (ESXI?) and any residual traces it might leave?

    Thanks in advance

     

    Specs:

    Edition Windows 10 Pro
    Version 22H2
    Installed on ‎9/‎14/‎2021
    OS build 19045.3930
    Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0

    VMware® Workstation 16 Player

    16.2.5 build-20904516



  • 2.  RE: Conflict between VMware workstation player and Windows Hyper-V

    Posted Feb 05, 2024 09:55 AM

    Hi,

    Your laptop/workstation could have experienced too much entropy due to install/uninstall, system patches and manual reconfiguratons. Try to avoid that.

    For GPU use in Windows applications, you do not need any hypervisor.
    For GPU use in Linux applications, you could go for dual boot.
    For hosting multiple windows and linux distros on the same laptop/workstation, use the type-2 hypervisor of your choice.

    Workstation Player is free of charge. If it doesn't fit to your need anymore, use the Windows apps uninstall option and reboot after the uninstallation has completed. That's it. That's all.

    "weird problems" is unclear.

    VMware Workstation offers many useful developer features e.g. snapshots, time sync to guest os, battery usage, etc. Workstation Pro 17.5 works flawlessly on Windows 11 Pro. The only "conflict" identified so far with WSL distributions concerns connecting/disconnecting USB peripherals (USB camera, USB network adapter, etc.) when concurrent access occurs.