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Big Sur Host: Nested virtualization on Win10 Guest: BSODs with WSL, "Virtual Machine Platform" on
Could this be a bug in VMware Fusion / VMware Tools when nested virtualization is enabled?
My setup:
- macOS BigSur Version 11.4
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) 64GB memory
- VMware Fusion Professional Version 12.1.2 (17964953)
- Guest OS: Windows 10 Pro 21H1 freshly installed without internet access
- 4 cores CPU, 8GB RAM
- "Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine"
- "Accelerate 3D Graphics", 8GB Shared graphics memory
- "Use full resolution for Retina display"
- Network adapter: Private to my Mac
- Hard disk 60GB
- The rest are defaults.
To recreate the problem:
- After Guest OS install is completed, ensure that VMware Tools 11.2.6 is installed.
- In Guest OS, Open "Turn Windows features on or off" and enable the following:
- Virtual Machine Platform
- Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Reboot
- Wait for a few minutes (even without logging in): BSOD "CRITICAL PROCESS DIED" and later other kinds of BSOD also.
This is a very simple test without anything special: fresh install with no additional 3rd party SW on Guest OS.
If Virtual Machine Platform is not enabled I don't see this BSOD.
Other kinds of BSOD also happen occasionally. List of BSOD stop codes observed so far with this setup:
- CRITICAL PROCESS DIED
- KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE
Also if WSL and Virtual Machine Platform are disabled, but Hyper-V is enabled: BSOD happens. Only when nested virtualisation is completely disabled is when I experience a stable Guest OS environment.
Anyone can recreate and confirm this? If so, could a VMware engineer look into this?
Thanks