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I just installed my laptop with Windows 7 (x64) and I was curious how the new Windows XP mode worked (more on that topic later). After installing it I could no longer start any Virtual Machines in VMWare Workstation. The VM fired up but immediately halted with the following error: “VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)” “VCPU 0 RunVM failed: -2”.
This happens because Virtual PC (which the XP mode uses) leaves a process running even after the XM mode is exited. Apparently this process has exclusive access to the Virtualisation Technology (Intel VT) on my processor. Killing this process fixed the issue.
I was curious what would happen the other way round so I started a VM in VMWare Workstation and then launched XP Mode. The results was disastrous: the VMWare VM halted and was shut down. Virtual PC started but without Integration Features.
After closing XP Mode and (once again) killing the vpc.exe process I could start the VMWare VM again. As you can see it dit not shut down correctly:
So the message is: be carefull about launching XP Mode if you have VMWare running!
One Response for "VMWare Workstation and Virtual PC XP Mode: unrecoverable error"
Running Virtual PC and VMWare at the same time has been a problem since the beginning.
I do not even want to predict what happens with it on a Hyper-V.
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