Running Docker on a Windows 10 Hyper-V

You are running Windows 10/11 on your machine with Hyper-V installed. You are also running a Windows 10 Hyper-V Virtual Machine.

When installing Docker you will get a notification that WSL is having issues so you will update it. Run PowerShell as Administrator:

wsl --update

And Docker will still fail so you will:

wsl --install

It might fail because you forgot to install Hyper V, so you:

Windows key > "features" > Turn Windows features on or off.

When you scroll down to Hyper V, you cannot install “Hyper-V Hypervisor”.

You cannot install it because you need BIOS virtualization.

Open Powershell as administrator on your Hyper V host machine and run the following, replacing <vmname> with the name of your VM.

Set-VMProcessor -VMName <your-vm-name> -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

Reboot the VM and then you can completely install all the options for Hyper-V

Don’t forget to:

wsl --install

Make sure to complete the installation, adding credentials, etc.

There is a chance that Docker will need to be uninstalled, rebooted, then reinstall.