Hey everyone,
I’ve been playing around with VirtualBox, WSL, and Arch Linux during my free time and run into issues while trying out Arch Linux in a VirtualBox VM.
Some info about my system:
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
- Windows 10 Pro 20H2
- Using WSL2 for Docker
Currently no matter what I do I get a Kernel Panic error when trying to boot Arch in a VirtualBox VM. After looking through other threads for similar issues. I think it comes down to WSLv2 and VirtualBox not playing nice.
- windows - VirtualBox and WSL2 - Stack Overflow
- KERNEL PANIC! when installing a linux distro [SOLUTION] : virtualbox (reddit.com)
- Please add the fact that WSL2 is not co-exists with VirtualBox 6.0.x · Issue #536 · MicrosoftDocs/WSL (github.com)
It seems like with the development of WSL2 Microsoft is pushing Windows virtualization platforms into using Hyper-V interface which uses VT-x/AMD-V exclusively. Then VirtualBox and other hypervisiors cannot use VT-x/AMD-V.