The traditional implementation of Workstation Pro relies on direct access to specific hardware features of the x86 microprocessor. 

These features, generally called Intel VT or AMD-V, are also used by recent versions of Windows that support Hyper-V. Also, it is not possible to run traditional Workstation Pro on a Windows host with the Hyper-V capability enabled because some Windows features like the virtualization-based security (or VBS), are built on top of Hyper-V. Therefore, a VBS-enabled Windows host is also incompatible with traditional Workstation Pro.

Source : docs.vmware.com

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Learn how to download and install VMware PowerCLI in this complete, step-by-step walkthrough.

Source : adamtheautomator.com

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There's still quite a few questions on how to install PowerCLI to offline systems. We're going to take a much closer look at that with this post!

Source : VMware PowerCLI Blog

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So, let me kick off this series in which I’ll be sharing what it feels like to virtualize and clone Active Directory Domain Controllers safely on both platforms, with a blogpost on finding out whether your virtual Domain Controllers may benefit from the VM-GenerationID on the VMware-based hypervisors and, thus, may be safely virtualized and cloned.

Source : The things that are better left unspoken

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KitKat is the latest Android release from Google with a lot of attractive changes both inside and outside. Before it hits every Android phone out there, you certainly have a new way to experience it with a very simple set up in VMware Workstation 10.

Source : VMware Workstation Zealot

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