VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible

Question

I have been running VMware for the last year no problems, today I opened it up to start one of my VM and get an error message, see screen shot.

I did follow

Answer 1

QUICK SOLUTION EVERY STEP:

Fixed error in VMware Workstation on Windows 10 host Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken.

Today we will be fixing VMWare error on a windows 10 computer.

1. In RUN box type "gpedit" then Goto [ERROR SEE POINT 3]

1- Computer Configuration

2- Administrative Templates

3- System - Device Guard : IF NO DEVICE GUARD : (DOWNLOAD https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/100591 install this "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows 10 November 2019 Update (1909)\PolicyDefinitions" COPY to c:\windows\PolicyDefinitions )

4- Turn on Virtualization Based Security. Now Double click that and "Disable"

2. Open Command Prompt as Administrator and type the following gpupdate /force [DONT DO IF YOU DONT HAVE DEVICE GUARD ELSE IT WILL GO AGAIN]

3. Open Registry Editor, now Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard. Add a new DWORD value named EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity and set it to 0 to disable it. Next Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA. Add a new DWORD value named LsaCfgFlags and set it to 0 to disable it.

4. In RUN box, type Turn Windows features on or off, now uncheck Hyper-V and restart system.

5. Open command prompt as a administrator and type the following commands

    bcdedit /create {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} /d "DebugTool" /application osloader

    bcdedit /set {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} path "\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\SecConfig.efi"

    bcdedit /set {bootmgr} bootsequence {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215}
    
    bcdedit /set {0cb3b571-2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} loadoptions DISABLE-LSA-ISO,DISABLE-VBS

    bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Now, Restart your system