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I am unable to start any of the the Hyper-V emulators (VS Android Emulator or any of the Windows Phone Emulators) when operating within a VMWare Workstation version 11 virtual machine.

Attached is how I have configured my VM underlying BIOS.

Also attached is the message I receive when attempting to start any of the emulators.

Hyper-V is installed and the Hyper-V management service is installed and started.

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You need to allow nested running of one virtual machine (Hyper-V) inside the other (VMWare).

Following steps worked for me:

  1. Close VMWare Virtual machine and open *.vmx and add following lines:

    vmx.allowNested = "TRUE"
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE" 
vhv.enable = "TRUE"

  2. Start Virtual machine (be sure to have at least 2 GB of free memory)

  3. Add Hyper-V Role: Under "Control Panel->Programs->Programs and Features" add all Hyper-V components (now Hyper-V Hypervisor should be selectable)

  4. Restart the VMWare Virtual machine and open Hyper-V Manager. Follow the instructions in this article: Windows Phone 8 emulator can't connect to the internet to configure the network.

Hope that helps!

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  • What do you mean "open *.vmx"? – godskook Aug 09 '17 at 21:23
  • @godskook: There is a file with the vmx ending in your folder where the virtual machine is saved. Usually it is named like your VM, for example "VS Emulator 5.5-inch Lollipop.vmx". This file you can edit with notepad or any other text editor. – Bjoerg Aug 10 '17 at 06:20