How to disable Hyper-V in command line?

I'm trying to open VMware, it says that VMware player and Hyper-V are not compatible. I found it here, but it's not working using the command it offers.

I tried to see the help, found that there's /hypervisorsettings option there. But still not work with it, it says The parameter is incorrect.

Can anyone help with this?

11 Answers

In an elevated Command Prompt write this :

To disable:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off 

To enable:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto 

(From comments - restart to take effect)

You can have a Windows 10 configuration with and without Hyper-V as follows in an Admin prompt:

bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Windows 10 no Hyper-V" 

find the new id of the just created "Windows 10 no Hyper-V" bootentry, eg. {094a0b01-3350-11e7-99e1-bc5ec82bc470}

bcdedit /set {094a0b01-3350-11e7-99e1-bc5ec82bc470} hypervisorlaunchtype Off 

After rebooting you can choose between Windows 10 with and without Hyper-V at startup

This command works

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-All 

Run it then agree to restart the computer when prompted.

I ran it in elevated permissions PowerShell on Windows 10, but it should also work on Win 8 or 7.

Command line:

dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:microsoft-hyper-v-all

If anyone is getting:

We couldn’t complete the updates, Undoing changes

after trying to disable the Hyper-V, try uninstalling Hyper-V virtual network adapters from your Device Manager->Network Adapters

Open a command prompt as admin and run this command:

bcdedit /set {current} hypervisorlaunchtype off 

After a reboot, Hyper-V is still installed but the Hypervisor is no longer running. Now you can use VMware without any issues.

If you need Hyper-V again, open a command prompt as admin and run this command:

bcdedit /set {current} hypervisorlaunchtype auto 

The OP had the best answer for me and it appears that others have figured out the -All addition as well. I set up two batch files, then shortcuts to those so you can set the Run As Admin permissions on them, easy-peasy.

Batch Off

Call dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V-All 

Batch On

Call dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V /All 

Right-click -> create desktop shortcut. Right-click the shortcut -> properties -> under the shortcut tab -> Advanced -> Run as admin

Open command prompt as admin and write :

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off 

This is not a direct answer to the OP's question, but if you have tried all the commands and Hyper-V shows as disabled, BUT still unable to start a virtualisation software like VirtualBox or VMWare and just so it happened that you had enabled WSL2 on your machine

Following solution might will work for you.

Go to Control Panel > Programs & Features > Turn Windows Feature On/OFF

Here is the catch, All the three below should be disabled/unchecked.

• Virtual Machine Platform
• Windows Hypervisor Platform
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

Restart!

you can use my script. paste code lines to notepad and save as vbs(for example switch_hypervisor.vbs)

Option Explicit Dim backupfile Dim record Dim myshell Dim appmyshell Dim myresult Dim myline Dim makeactive Dim makepassive Dim reboot record="" Set myshell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") If WScript.Arguments.Length = 0 Then Set appmyshell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") appmyshell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """ RunAsAdministrator", , "runas", 1 WScript.Quit End if Set backupfile = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If Not (backupfile.FileExists("C:\bcdedit.bak")) Then Set myresult = myshell.Exec("cmd /c bcdedit /export c:\bcdedit.bak") End If Set myresult = myshell.Exec("cmd /c bcdedit") Do While Not myresult.StdOut.AtEndOfStream myline = myresult.StdOut.ReadLine() If myline="The boot configuration data store could not be opened." Then record="" exit do End If If Instr(myline, "identifier") > 0 Then record="" If Instr(myline, "{current}") > 0 Then record="current" End If End If If Instr(myline, "hypervisorlaunchtype") > 0 And record = "current" Then If Instr(myline, "Auto") > 0 Then record="1" Exit Do End If If Instr(myline, "On") > 0 Then record="1" Exit Do End If If Instr(myline, "Off") > 0 Then record="0" Exit Do End If End If Loop If record="1" Then makepassive = MsgBox ("Hypervisor status is active, do you want set to passive? ", vbYesNo, "Hypervisor") Select Case makepassive Case vbYes myshell.run "cmd.exe /C bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" reboot = MsgBox ("Hypervisor chenged to passive; Computer must reboot. Reboot now? ", vbYesNo, "Hypervisor") Select Case reboot Case vbYes myshell.run "cmd.exe /C shutdown /r /t 0" End Select Case vbNo MsgBox("Not Changed") End Select End If If record="0" Then makeactive = MsgBox ("Hypervisor status is passive, do you want set active? ", vbYesNo, "Hypervisor") Select Case makeactive Case vbYes myshell.run "cmd.exe /C bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto" reboot = MsgBox ("Hypervisor changed to active; Computer must reboot. Reboot now?", vbYesNo, "Hypervisor") Select Case reboot Case vbYes myshell.run "cmd.exe /C shutdown /r /t 0" End Select Case vbNo MsgBox("Not Changed") End Select End If If record="" Then MsgBox("Error: record can't find") End If 

I tried all of stack overflow and all didn't works. But this works for me:

1. Open System Configuration
2. Click Service tab
3. Uncheck all of Hyper-V related

I found the perfect solution on

It wasn't working with given commands. But when you go to Power Shell and use command CMD then enter on or off with bcdedit /set {current} hypervisorlaunchtype [off or on chose any] then it worked without any issue.