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VBS requires hyper-v to be enabled and it "owns" the CPU virtualization hardware so I can't use VMware workstation which is very annoying.

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VMWare Workstation [0] (and I thought VirtualBox - though I can't find any official docs [1]) should be able to use the Hyper-V hypervisor via WHP.

QEMU can also use WHP via --accel whpx.

[0] - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/virtualization/vmwa...

[1] - https://www.impostr-labs.com/use-hyper-v-and-virtualbox-toge...

It works indeed, but the performance drop is quite drastic.

As a network engineer I mainly like VMware workstation because of its awesome virtual network editor that lets me easily build complex topologies but it doesn't work when you use Hyper-V.

Same. Have to disable VBS for VirtualBox, and it gets more and more obscure with each update because some features like Windows Hello force it back on.

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