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You may be right but: 1.) The Hyper-V component isn't installed on my Windows 20H1 install. WSL 2 may use Hyper-V technology, but the full thing does not appea

• alibert 7y ago
  Is "Hyper-V" or "Windows Hypervisor Platform" enabled in Windows Features screen?
• temac 7y ago
  The Hyper-V hypervisor is obviously running. I don't remember the corresponding name in the optional components. The complete Hyper-V suit you use to manually create and run VM does not need to be installed by default, but that's irrelevant. Windows provides more and more features that relies on the hypervisor, e.g. Windows Sandbox, Edge Protected Mode, Credential Guard, etc. Those features (and WSL2) are not available when you are not running under the hypervisor. MS also provides an API so that third party VM tools can run, and Virtual Box can use it, but still recently it had tons of issues. Maybe the situation is somehow better now, I don't know. I don't think this is an option with VMWare though.
  • alibert 7y ago
    Indeed, until very recently, Virtual Box could not be run with Hyper-V enabled. One the recent release, fixed that but the price was some performance optimization was disabled. So it's not optimal [1]. VMWare has a tech preview of the next version of Workstation which should work with the new Windows 2004 [2] [1] https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=470529#p470529 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=470529#p470529 [2] https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/01/vmware-workstation-tech-preview-20h1.html https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/01/vmware-workstat...