Trying to run VMWare Workstation on Google Cloud Platform instance?

Question

Windows: Now, I want to install a VMWare Workstation on the Windows Google Cloud Platform instance and next install another OS on that VMWare Workstation.

But I get this BSOD.

Linux: Now, I want to install a VMWare Workstation on the Linux Google Cloud Platform instance and next install another OS on that VMWare Workstation.

But I get this error.

This host supports intel VT-x. but the Intel VT-x implementation is incompatible. 

This host does not support Intel EPT hardware assisted MMU virtualization.

Module "CPUIDEarly" power on failed.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

It is rather useless to install a type 2 (hosted) hypervisor inside a GCE virtual machine.

There are a) other options for VMware hosting or b) migrate these containers with Velostrata.

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c) That one error message (assuming you'd go the proposed nested virtualization route) might require monitor.allowLegacyCPU = "true" in file config.ini, because it seems the CPU is not supported by VMware Workstation 14 (this at least works for some elder Intel® Xeon® CPU).

Answer 2

I agree with Martin that you may not want to run VMware workstation, but you may need nested virtualization for other stuff like VMware ESXi/qemu.

GCE VMs do support nested virtualization please see Enabling Nested Virtualization for VM Instances on how to do it. This will enable VT-x support inside the VM.