Unable to boot Windows 10 guest using VirtualBox with enabled Hyper-V and WSL2 installed

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tbmsilva picture tbmsilva · Jun 4, 2020 · Viewed 33.9k times · Source

I recently updated my Windows 10 version to version 2004. I also updated WSL to WSL2.

I encountered a problem while trying to use a Virtual Machine (Windows 10 Host/Windows 10 Guest) through VirtualBox 6.1.8. Everytime I try to boot it, it becomes really slow and doesn't make it past the boot loading screen.

I thought the newest versions of VB fixed this issue (according to this documentation from Microsoft).

What can I do to fix this?

Answer

Zaigham R. picture Zaigham R. · Jun 20, 2020

Downgrade to WSL1, if you want to save yourself from days of wasted effort.

I've upgraded to WSL2 and tried a bit to get VirtualBox to work with it and I couldn't find anything useful. There are few guides which suggest that turning off some features of VirtualBox which make it work but it will make it even slower than what it is right now, which really defeats the purpose.

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/536

https://superuser.com/q/1531337

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