• 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”
  • Files created with this mount are owned by root. Still needs work.
  • Left hyper-v off for now. Is this a problem?