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Did Microsoft fix the issue that when Windows virtualization is enabled then VirtualBox VMs do not run [0]? Better they focus some of their resources to fix that first.

If not yet, then Windows Sandbox it is a less useful feature that it may seem, because we have to choose between Windows Virtualization and VirtualBox VM snapshots all the time.

[0] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16801

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This. I cannot use docker on my gaming rig to use it as dev machine sometimes because I need VirtualBox on it.

Isn't it just a case of changing a registry value and rebooting?

If switching from games to dev work requires manually patching the system registry and rebooting, then something is horribly wrong.

You can use docker-machine with VirtualBox. It is not smooth as the native Docker experience, but it is good enough.

Yes, it was fixed last week in VirtualBox 6.0, which now uses Hyper-V APIs at the cost of reduced performance.

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