- After upgrading to windows 11, virtualbox no longer worked.
- Spent a little time trying to fix but gave up eventually.
- Others seem to be having similar problems.
- Tried disabling hyper-v per: disable hyper-v by running “Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor” in powershell.
- Also accessed hyper-v setting through control panel.
- This appeared to have disabled hyper-v (as seen in control panel) but didn’t seem to help with virtualbox.
- Gave up on virtualbox and decided to try vmware.
- Had to create support.broadcom.com login.
- Downloaded vmware from broadcom. VMWare Workstation Pro for windows under free downloads.
- Spent some time trying to get bridged networking to work but eventually gave up and decided to fall back on NAT (which actually should be fine).
- per: This askubuntu answer was able to mount from windows host using : “sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other”
- also per: This askubuntu answer use “.host:/ /mnt/hgfs fuse.vmhgfs-fuse auto,allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0” in /etc/fstab to get mount to persist.
- Files created with this mount are owned by root. Still needs work.
- Left hyper-v off for now. Is this a problem?
- Installed open-vm-tools as follows: “sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop” per : https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2073803