Tag: Error powering on

Error while powering on – The Intel VMX Unrestricted Guest feature is necessary

Rebuilt one of my ESXi hosts into a windows server with VMWare Workstation  (future HomeLab update post coming).

First server that I started to build and powered on I got the following error:

This host does not support virtualizing real mode. The Intel VMX Unrestricted Guest feature is necessary to run this virtual machine on an Intel processor.

Module CPUIDEarly power on failed.

VMWareWorkstationPowerOnIssue

The reason this is the case if that in Workstation 14, the system requirements changed meaning that old CPUs like mine

Go to C:\ProgramData\VMWare\VMWare Workstation and add the following setting to the config.ini file:

monitor.allowLegacyCPU = “true”

Close VMWare Workstation and now you will be able to start the Virtual Machine.