How to solve Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred Error
When turning on a virtual machine, you may encounter the error “Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred Error” on a VMware workstation. If you recently upgraded your Windows to Windows 11 or installed it on a new computer. Here are the complete error details.
VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-1)
Exception 0x0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
There are many solutions available over the internet, I will combine all the solutions here.
This fix is available from VMware, you need to disable Virtualization security through GPO, Turn off the Hyper-V feature and set hypervisorlaunchtype off.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146361
The second fix is common to solve the “Exception 0x0000005” error, disable “Accelerate 3D graphics” in Virtual machine Hardware.
The third fix is if you are running Windows 11 then you may need to upgrade to “VMware® Workstation 17 Pro” or the latest version. I have tested the “17.0.0 build-20800274” version and the issue was fixed.
I received this error when I copied a Win10 guest (suspended)
from: Workstation 15. on Win8.1 Pro
to: Workstation 16.0 on Win11 Home
These suggested solutions did not make any difference:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
Windows Security -> Device Security -> Core Isolation details
Upgrading to Workstation 17.5 fixed it. (so far)
Thanks