If anyone is trying to run VMware workstation on Windows 11, I had to do the following to get it working.
From an elevated command prompt:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
Windows+r > optionalfeatures
Turn off > Windows Hypervisor Platform
Turn off > Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows Security > Device Security > Core Isolation > Memory Integrity > Off
Reboot.
Interesting. I am not on a 16 but on a 13 I did not have to disable hypervisor or WSL to get Workstation working. VMWare advertised not that long ago that it could work with HyperV on.
Maybe it has to do with the AMD platform, as all of my 13s are Intel based.
I tried looked at broadcom’s support forums and couldn’t find any data and just did some trial and error. This is my first AMD so not sure of the specifics. I do want to go back through and re-enable one by one to see what exactly might break it. I brought over my VMs and at least my test network is back up and running.
This was not the culprit.
Windows+r > optionalfeatures
Turn off > Windows Hypervisor Platform
Turn off > Windows Subsystem for Linux
When I enable Core Isolation it does not work for me and I also had to disable hypervisorlaunchtype. I did try bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto but that failed too.
Maybe it’s just an AMD thing atm, like I said, haven’t had time to go too far into it.
At least it’s working for my needs right now.