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  • 1.  How can I run WSL2 (or Hyper-V) in a Windows 10 guest under ESXi?

    Posted Jun 01, 2020 02:14 PM

    There are lots of discussions about running VMWare alongside of Hyper-V. This is not what I want!

    I would like to enable WSL2 in a Windows Guest that runs in ESXi 7. I am getting the error "WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80370102" which basically means that the PC does not support virtualisation.

    How do I enable Hyper-V or WSL2 inside of a Windows guest?



  • 2.  RE: How can I run WSL2 (or Hyper-V) in a Windows 10 guest under ESXi?

    Posted Jun 01, 2020 02:19 PM

    The along side conversations are about workstation which is a different product. If you want to look at running hyperv in a vm on esxi you need to look for articles like the one below since VMware doesn't support that officially.

    How to Run Nested Hyper-V on VMware vSphere



  • 3.  RE: How can I run WSL2 (or Hyper-V) in a Windows 10 guest under ESXi?

    Posted Jun 01, 2020 02:36 PM

    Thank you for the link. When I enable this feature (hardware assisted virtualisation) then Windows 10 crashes on boot, as soon as WSL2 has been enabled.

    Was anyone successful in enabling this?



  • 4.  RE: How can I run WSL2 (or Hyper-V) in a Windows 10 guest under ESXi?

    Posted Jul 10, 2020 09:10 AM

    What is your ESXi version? We have here some complains about BSOD when hyper-v is enabled in windows. It worked in esxi 6.5 and 6.7 seems causing problems. We will open vmware SR.

    EDIT: Seem there is already topic with Hyper-V crashing Re: hyper-v crashing



  • 5.  RE: How can I run WSL2 (or Hyper-V) in a Windows 10 guest under ESXi?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 17, 2021 10:38 AM

    I also have same problems.

    My case is enable nested ESXi and vdi OS  VT-x option.

    but, click chrome or Edge brower , then OS Crush. (and no controll).

    How about this?

    BSOD screen display " Stop code: DPC WATCHDO VIOLATION"