Monday 3 December 2018

VMware Player and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Player can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard.

VMware Player and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Player can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard.
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Error:
VMware Player and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Player can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard. Please visit http://www.vmware.com/go/turnoff_CG_DG for more details.
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Solution:
Open run and type gpedit.msc
Navigate to Local computer Policy => Computer Configuration => Administrative Templates => System => Device Guard => Double click on "Turn on virtualization"
select disable and click ok.

Now go to Control Panel => Uninstall a program => Click on Turn Windows features on or off => Deselect Hyper-V
Click on do not restart

Open command prompt as admin and delete the below EFI variables from BCD file.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /create {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} /d "DebugTool" /application osloader
The entry {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} was successfully created.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} path "\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\SecConfig.efi"
The operation completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set {bootmgr} bootsequence {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215}
The operation completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} loadoptions DISABLE-LSA-ISO,DISABLE-VBS
The operation completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
The operation completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Restart the system

Reopen VMware Player and start VM.