Error: Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform.

[Rob Truban]

I get the error "Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform." when attempting to launch a Window Server 2022 VM with VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.3.

Setup:

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7

Intel Core Ultra 9 185H (Meteor Lake-based, new generation)

Windows 11 Pro (Host)

I have turned off and verified none of the Hyper-V services are running. 

I confirmed there are not any nested VMs.

These lines are present in the vmx file:

vhv.enable = "TRUE"     
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
mce.enable = "TRUE"

I created a new Ubunto VM and confirmed VT-x is not visible to the Ubuntu guest.

I exported the VM to an OVF and imported it into VirtualBox and the Windows VM will launch in VirtualBox.   I've tried everything I can find to fix this issue, including everything from ChatGPT.

Does anyone have know how to resolve this issue or have any additional troubleshooting suggestion?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

[Vinitha V Nair]

Hi,

Please share the support bundle including the Windows Server 2022 guest OS logs. 

Thanks.

[Morc001]

Did you check whether VBS (Virtualization Based Security) is off. Here, on this forum, there are discussions describing how to disable the invisible virtualization layer in Windows. Hyper-V services are not enough. You VM's configuration has these two checkboxes checked:

Unless you want to run Hyper-V inside the VM, you don't need these. Uncheck, then try again. If you need hardware virtualization features within the VM, you'll need to disable VBS.