My personal Windows device is a Windows 10 guest OS that is hosted on a MacBook Pro running OS/X with VMWare Fusion. After installing Docker (Install Docker Desktop on Windows) I received numerous errors that the BIOS was not configured to support virtualization.
To enable virtualization the VM's Settings | Processors and Memory need to be modified. In VMWare Fusion the settings for a VM can be found by right clicking the virtual machine (the VM's name is W10Core3 which is now a .NET 5 VM) and selecting Settings from the context menu:
The Settings dialog (see below) contains Systems Settings group in which there is a Processors & Memory icon:
Clicking on the Processors & Memory icon displays the Processors & Memory dialog (see below). Expand Advanced options at the bottom of the dialog:
From the Advanced options section check the Enable hypervision applications in this virtual machine checkbox (see below):
Enable hypervision applications in this virtual machine is not a Windows 10 specific setting. The Guest OS running Docker would be Linux, Windows 10 or OS/X.
The MacBook Pro running VMWare Fusion with the Windows 10 guest OS is configured as follows:
When Docker is running, OS/X is running Windows 10 via VMWare Fusion and the Windows 10 is running WSL 2 which is Linux virtualization. This is nested virtualization and running Docker makes Windows 10 nearly unusable and subject to application crashes.
My solution to this was to create an Azure VM using my $150 per-month Azure credit received through my MSDN subscription but the details of this are a future post.
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