WSL doesn't let VMware or VBox work #6213
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After installing WSL and WSL2 my virtual machines stopped working. I uninstall WSL2 and WSL because maybe that was the issue but the problem persist. |
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Latest VMware release has support for HyperV as an hypervisor, as WSL forces it, I don't know about virtualbox but I believe there should be a setting to change to use HyperV as well |
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Are you using the latest version of VMware/VBox? See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq#will-i-be-able-to-run-wsl-2-and-other-3rd-party-virtualization-tools-such-as-vmware-or-virtualbox |
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Yeah, was the first thing I did. In the end I found that I also have to turn off more features on Windows features, and they started to work again. In order to help other people with this problem these are the principle ones:
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Are you using the latest version of VMware/VBox? See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq#will-i-be-able-to-run-wsl-2-and-other-3rd-party-virtualization-tools-such-as-vmware-or-virtualbox