Hyper-V machine sometimes gets stuck when enabling wsl2 (nested virtualization enabled)

Question

I have a machine running a windows 11 VM with nested virtualization enabled. when enabling wsl2 features and restarting the VM sometimes "halts" in the reboot process. seemingly for no reason. other times (I have a checkpoint) however it works just fine.

In general nested virtualization seem to be unstable.

This VM is intended for software testing (required to be run on windows and wsl) and I would like it to not be run on a dedicated machine despite it being an easy solution.

Any hints or diagnosis would help.

Answer 1

Hi YoraiLevi,

Thanks for your post in Microsoft Community.

We may not be very good at Hyper-V features. There is a Hyper-V dedicated forum where most discussions of Hyper-V features take place.

Technet forums - Hyper-V (microsoft.com)

I think you can ask your questions here, and your questions will definitely be answered here.

Thank you very much for your understanding and patience. Questions about the daily use of Windows can be posted here, and we will sincerely answer them for you.

Kirk | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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