How to disable virtualization-based security on Surface Pro 5

Question

I keep getting the following error message whenever I try to run a EVE-NG.

Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform.

Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT?

I tried to resolve the issue by disabling Memory Integrity in Core Isolated. I have also tried the steps below, but nothing seem to work. Could someone point me in the right direction to resolve the issue?

1. Turn Off Hyper-V
2. Go to "Turn Windows features on or off"
3. Make sure Hyper-v is not ticked.
4. If it is Ticked, untick it and click "Ok".
5. Open command prompt window as an administrator   
6. Run “bcdedit /enum {current}”
7. Note down the hypervisorlaunchtype in case this needs to be reverted
8. Run “bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off” to disable hypervisor Close the command prompt after   executing the commands and restart the system.

Edit group policy (gpedit)

1. Go to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System
2. Double Click on Device Guard on the right hand side to open.
3. Double Click on "Turn On Virtualization Security" to open a new window
4. It would be "Not Configured", Select "Disable" and click "Ok"
5. Close the Group Policy Editor.
6. Restart the system

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

Based on my understanding of the problem, I suggest you try the following steps to see if it can be solved:

1. Open Windows Security -> Under Virus & threat protection, click Manage settings -> find Tamper Protection - > toggle it Off

2.Open Registry Editor Navigate to this path:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard -> create DWORD EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity -> **** set its value to 0

1. Restart the PC and check again.

Best regards

Zunhui

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