Hi Spec8472,
Thanks for picking this up.
If your ESXi VM has enabled Virtualize Intel-VTx/EPT or AMD-V/RVI under CPU settings, please try disable it.
I only tried turning off Virtualization Based Security, that did not help. There's an "expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS" setting, I can give that whirl but I believe I need that somewhere else.
You can also disable Avast hardware-assisted virtualization under troubleshooting settings in Avast GUI.
Yeah, this was one of my ideas too, hence I wrote that Avast UI fails to load. I'm sure there's a reason why the UI is so complex that it fails to load unless everything is normal but especially the settings should be available somewhere to fix an issue like this. Can you specify how I can disable this without the UI? (Registry?)
Can you please specify your CPU?
Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1GHz