VMWare and HyperV on the Same Machine

Apparently running VMWare Workstation on a HyperV host is a no-go. I loaded it to try it and while it seems nice – it's gone just as quick as it came:

 

Posted Monday, February 16 2009 12:42 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comment
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#1 re: VMWare and HyperV on the Same Machine

Monday, March 16 2009 6:16 AM by Divya

Hyper-V and VMWare perform the same role - that of being a hypervisor. Hyper-V runs below the OS - and VMWare Workstation works above the OS. You'll get the same problem trying to run VMWare on Zen (eg. running VMWare in a amazon EC2 instance).

It is a shame though :-)

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