I had a request to run VMWare Workstation Player on an Azure VM for some testing and labs. Challenge accepted!

UPDATE: Since version 15.5, VMware Workstation & Player Supports Host Hyper-V Mode. Find out more here & here

Demo environment:

Azure VM Standard E4s_v4 Gen 1 running Windows 10 2004 Enterprise 

I tested it also with Windows 10 20H2 Enterprise, and since the Hyper-V mode is supported, it should run at all Windows Client & Server OSs that support nested virtualization and to all E_v4 & D_v4 Azure VM Serries.

To enable the Hyper-V Mode Support we need first to enable Hyper-V at the Windows Host via the add/remove features GUIor PowerShell

Via PowerShell Run:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName HypervisorPlatform -All
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

and restart

Installed VMWare Workstation Player 16.0 free for non-commercial use, download from here: VMware Workstation Player – VMware Customer Connect

After the installation, I opened the VMWare Workstation Player and I managed to set up and run a Windows 10 VM.

Pantelis Apostolidis

Pantelis Apostolidis is a Sr. Specialist, Azure at Microsoft and a former Microsoft Azure MVP. For the last 20 years, Pantelis has been involved to major cloud projects in Greece and abroad, helping companies to adopt and deploy cloud technologies, driving business value. He is entitled to a lot of Microsoft Expert Certifications, demonstrating his proven experience in delivering high quality solutions. He is an author, blogger and he is acting as a spokesperson for conferences, workshops and webinars. He is also an active member of several communities as a moderator in azureheads.gr and autoexec.gr. Follow him on Twitter @papostolidis.

www.cloudcorner.gr

The post VMWare Workstation Player on Azure VM for testing appeared first on Apostolidis Cloud Corner.