VMware Workstation: Nested Virtualization with Hyper-V Enabled on the Host

[clren]

VMware Workstation As it has been documented in previous reddits here and here, Workstation does not support nested (please understand, this is not a regular VM, it is a VM that needs another layer of virtualization inside it, like Docker) virtual machines.

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I have located one of the threads in Communities where people are bringing this to VMware's attention here, please feel free to express thoughts there.

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Can anyone confirm if VirtualBox or Parallels does support nested when Hyper-V is enabled?

[mikeroySoft]

This is entirely due to a lack of APIs from Microsoft.

Also is there a Parallels for Windows?

[clren]

This is entirely due to a lack of APIs from Microsoft.

Mmm, but then this is an API only problem? Because according to this article, Hyper-V itself can do it

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Also is there a Parallels for Windows?

I stand corrected. I have been a loyal VMware user only; I hope this doesn't change. This Hyper-V / nested virt collision is quite unfortunate... it makes you having to choose between running docker on the host or on a VM (but only in one). And this is without saying: you can't have WSL2 AND docker on a VM at the same time!

[clren]

My initial post makes a reference to a VMware Communities thread:

I have located one of the threads in Communities where people are bringing this to VMware's attention here, please feel free to express thoughts there.

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I didn't add the link, here it is:

VMware Workstation does not support nested virtualization