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by ch_123 2118 days ago
It is now possible to run other hypervisors with Hyper-V enabled, but there is usually a performance penalty. See:

https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/05/vmware-workstat...

https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/rel...

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This feature, at least in VirualBox, is useless. Machines that run hyper-v core do not boot properly, have their memory corrupted at boot, etc.

I wanted to use various things that rely on Hyper-V such as the Sandbox and WSL2 (last tried it in June), but the brokenness of VirtualBox forced me to abandon those technologies.

I still haven't decided which one is better, "buying in" fully on Hyper-V or sticking with a set of separate solutions, eg. MSYS2 instead of WSL2, Docker Toolbox vs. Docker for Windows, Linux VMs in VirtualBox on an as-needed basis, etc.