Can't turn on Virtualization on VMware Workstation Pro 16 for WSL 2.

KazeEnji — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:15:56 GMT

Hello all,

My host is Windows 11 Pro. My Guest is Windows 10 Pro. Both are up-to-date as of a few minutes ago. My host does not have either the Hyper-V or Windows Sandbox features installed. I'm trying to enable WSL 2 with an Ubuntu Distro in the Win10 Pro guest VM and I can't. It says to check to make sure Virtualization in the BIOS and the Virtual Machine Platform in the guest. VMP is already turned on in the guest but I can't turn on Intel-VT.

Every time I try to boot my guest with Intel-VT enabled, I get this error:

VMware Workstation does not support nested virtualization on this host.

Module 'HV' power on failed.

I'm not sure why it thinks I have nested virtualization enabled. I'm not getting the old credential guard error since they play kind of nice together now. Does anyone have any ideas of what else I need to check to see what might be causing this?

Thanks!

Re: Can't turn on Virtualization on VMware Workstation Pro 16 for WSL 2.

CarltonR — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:54:48 GMT

@KazeEnji wrote: Every time I try to boot my guest with Intel-VT enabled, I get this error: VMware Workstation does not support nested virtualization on this host.

Suggest reviewing:

Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Virtualized-Intel-VT-x-EPT-is-not-supported-on-this-platform/m-p/2930785/highlight/true#M177714

VMware Workstation does not support nested virtualization on this host
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMware-Workstation-does-not-support-nested-virtualization-on/m-p/1864220/highlight/true#M110963

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