[PLUG] Running WSL2 in VirtualBox

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Hi everyone,

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04, and on it I'm running Windows 10 in
VirtualBox 6.1.6. Over the weekend I updated Win10 to the latest
release and I'm having trouble getting WSL2 to work.

When I try to switch Ubuntu from WSL 1 to 2 in PowerShell I'm getting
this message:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2
Conversion in progress, this may take a few minutes...
For information on key differences with WSL 2 please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2
Please enable the Virtual Machine Platform Windows feature and ensure virtualization is enabled in the BIOS.
For information please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2-install

I've enabled the Virtual Machine Platform feature. In fact, I had to
do that to get WSL1 to work. I'm assuming virtualization must be
enabled in my computer's BIOS in order for me to be running Win10 in
VirtualBox in the first place.

A Google search suggested I needed to enable nested VMs. A further
search suggested I needed to set the "Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-V" check
box on the Processor tab in VirtualBox settings. I've tried that but
I'm still getting the same error.

Has anyone else managed to get this to work?

Walt

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