Padrys wrote:
yam103 wrote:
But if we must have hyper-v activated, we can do away with virtual machines like virtualbox. It sucks.
We can very well use virtualbox on hyper-v:
https://www.informatiweb.net/tutoriels/informatique/virtualisation/virtualbox-utiliser-virtualbox-et-hyper-v-simultanement.html
You can actually use Hyper-V and VirtualBox.
But the WSL2 uses Hyper-V’s VT-x acceleration exclusively, and that’s the whole point. Because without it, at best it’s slow, at worst it crashes completely. And it’s not for lack of having tried everything and its opposite in all directions on my machine with WSL2 and Virtualbox!
Even though Microsoft announces ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq ) that VirtualBox supports Hyper-V and that it works, well as it is, it does not. It really doesn’t work, VirtualBox crashes all the time at random.
Afterwards, even with WSL2 and Hyper-V enabled, you just need an Ubuntu VM from time to time, there is the Hyper-V virtual machine system which is downloadable and installable from Windows options. It works. But it’s still a lot slower than VirtualBox without Hyper-V.
After having spent 3 days trying all the possible configurations, I was a little scalded by the experience and I went back to WSL 1, which works well enough for everything I do with it; next to it if I need a VM, VirtualBox works fine.
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