If you encounter an error that says Your host does not meet the minimum requirements to run VMware Workstation, follow these solutions to fix the issue.

In such scenarios, the error, The virtual machine failed to start because nested virtualization is not supported can be pretty standard. What causes The virtual machine failed to start because ...

This issue is resolved. Product Support Notices Deprecation of the Shared virtual machine feature - The Shared virtual machine feature (VMware Workstation as server) is being deprecated.

We put the two side by side to see how they shaped up and whether or not the free-to-use VirtualBox 4.2 has advantages over the pay-to-use VMware Workstation 9.