Dec 4, 2011

Installing Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows 2008R2 nested in VMWare Workstation 8


I was trying to create a lab enviroment to test Hyper-V high availability.

After confirming that I have enabled virtualisation of VT-x/EPT like in picture bellow

I have tried toisntall Hyper-V role. I succeded!!!

But, the problem appeared when tried to start virtual machine.
Error stated (Hyper-V error ID 20144)

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Description:
The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to start the virtual machine '%machinename%' because one of the Hyper-V components is not running (Virtual machine ID %ID_of_the_virtual_machine%).
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After reading a lot of docs there is one thing to do if you want to run nested VMs.



Edit VMX configuration file of virtual Hyper-V server and at the end add the following line:

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"

Machine must be turned off. After adding line, power on virtual Hyper-V server and everything will be ok.

You don't need to reinstall anything. You can reconfigure existing machine and make it work.

I think that VMWare should make this automatic.

Post me if it's not working or explanation is not clear.
Posted by Velimir Kojic at 21:16
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26 comments:

  1. great post this has been busting my balls in my lab all day

    thanks

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    1. Thanks for your help I am very much thankful to you. i am getting this error since One month.finally It worked and its amazing.

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  2. That was bustin' my b*** several days :)... I'm happy the article helped you! Cheers!

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  3. Perfect! This thing busted several of myths. Where did you find those information, especially about adding new value to the config file? Thanks a lot!
    draq

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  4. Hi! I've found it in VMWARE documentation. There are articles that are explaining how to enable nested virtualization, where another hypervisor is a guest and you have another virtual machine nested.

    Maybe I can find a hyperlink to send it to you, if you need it.

    At the moment, you have a lot of articles like this all over the web.

    Velimir

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  5. Thank you very much from Germany for this article. It helped me use a test drive downloaded from Citrix.

    Karlheinz

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  6. Works perfectly! Thanks for posting it on the web ;)

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  7. Thanks velimir Kojic..
    it's very usefull..
    could u give me hyperlink about VMWare documentation???

    Regards,
    Chazali Husni

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    1. I've used this documentation while creating this article.

      http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970/diff?secondVersionNumber=38

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  8. Just working.
    Thanks. :)

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  9. Excellent! Thank you very much!

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  10. I have amd brazos dual core c60 which supports according to amd software,
    esxii5 with hypervior is working fine,
    but when adding the mentioned hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE",the vmware 8 is giving fault occurance,
    disabling this parameter hyper v is installing with no error ,but when I launch any oparating system it is giving one of the hyper v component is missing.

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    1. I've tested this configuration on Intel i7 CPU.

      Do you have a chance to test your configuration on Intel CPU? Or to test it on someones system with AMD CPU to see that system's behavior...

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    2. No!I am testing for lab purpose.Also Itried to install the hyper v in that amd machine in separate partition like a base machine,that time the virtual hdd was not loading,my question is that microsoft HAV tool as well as amd toolare are giving positive result,wil I have to update 2008 r2 for this comaptibility or the problems lises some where else

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    3. Hi!

      I'm gonna ask a stupid question, maybe. Is CPU virtualisation support enabled in BIOS?

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  11. Thanks a lot Sir!!! I have wasted a day on this issue...

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  12. Guys i am having a issue with Hyper-V ..can you guys give me a clue to fix this .. Basically i am running a Win7 where i am using VMware to create my small lab. So i start installing Windows Server 2008R2 and i am using now from this OS Hyper V to create some virtual machines. Since i am trying to install the first virtual machine, a win7 iso i get this message error ..

    [img]http://i32.servimg.com/u/f32/11/22/20/87/vm110.jpg[/img]

    Can anybody help me here?

    Regards []

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    1. Check the Event Viewer on Hyper-V server machine to get more detailed error msg.

      Post iz here.

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  13. Edit VMX configuration file of virtual Hyper-V server and at the end add the following line:

    hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"

    Where is the file that this has to be added to at, like what is the filename and location?

    Thanks

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    1. VMX file is named by a name you gave to a VM (virtual_machine_name.vmx). File is located in a VM folder, where virtual HDDs are, etc...

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  14. Follwed the procedure on Vmware 8 and now it works fine

    Thanks

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  15. Thank you for information... :D

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  16. Thanks for article, but in my case it didnt work. I have error message: The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running.
    Do you know what is all about?

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    1. Could you get me your Event ID?

      P.S. Sorry for not replying for so long time, I was pretty busy :(.

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  17. Thanks a lot!!! It saved me a lot of time!!!!

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  18. Awesome!! thanks for posting this setting :)

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