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Stop blaming Hyper-V for "crippling other VM software". You ever tried to run VBox and KVM together? It's a limitation of the processor's virtualization extensi
by lmz 7y ago
Stop blaming Hyper-V for "crippling other VM software". You ever tried to run VBox and KVM together? It's a limitation of the processor's virtualization extension.
- inyorgroove 7y agoProblem is once Hyper-V is installed and enabled, no other VM can even be started regardless of no Hyper-V VMs actually running. This limitation does not exist on linux afaik. I have run libvirt based VMs and VirtualBox VMs at the same time on linux just fine in the past.
- lukevp 7y agoThat’s not what’s happening. Hyper-v is a type-1 hypervisor. When it’s running, even your Windows instance is running within hyper-v. Windows 10 has the hypervisor platform that lets other vm developers hook into the hyper-v host architecture, that’s how you can get android emulators and virtualbox running under hyper-v. It all works fine but is a little unintuitive to set up.
- HelloNurse 7y agoIf both VirtualBox and VMware give up on Hyper-V coexistence, it must be a bit worse than "unintuitive".
- garethrowlands 7y agoThey haven't given up.
- SXX 7y agoMost likely you just wasn't using VirtualBox own virtualization since it's cant work alongside with KVM. Current version of virtualbox just use KVM just like libvirt.
- IntelMiner 7y agoThat's false The above commenter linked to a far more thorough explanation https://superuser.com/questions/1208850/why-cant-virtualbox-or-vmware-run-with-hyper-v-enabled-on-windows-10 https://superuser.com/questions/1208850/why-cant-virtualbox-...
- lmz 7y agohttps://askubuntu.com/questions/413511/can-virtualbox-and-kvm-run-alongside-each-other https://askubuntu.com/questions/413511/can-virtualbox-and-kv... no. not together. Still a limitation of the virtualization extensions.
- jchw 7y agoYes, I have? I am... currently doing so... Although, I don’t know if both kinds of VMs can run in parallel. I recall at least doing so with VMWare in the past. The thing is, when enabling Hyper-V on Windows, you can’t do anything without fully rebooting. On Linux I know for a fact you do not need to reboot to switch between VMs.
- hashhar 7y agoHyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor. Even windows runs within it when enabled. Comparing to KVM would be better rather than VBox or VMWare. Try VBox with KVM to see same effect.
- tsimionescu 7y agoThe complaint is not necessarily with Hyper-V itself, it is with WSL2 requiring Hyper-V, thus stopping you from using WSL2 and VBox (or VMware) on the same machine - though apparently they have very recently fixed this.