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I'm using Windows 11 Home and had installed WSL. Apparently wsl2 uses hyper-v so that's causing problems when I want to run VMs. I'm not sure how to turn hyper-v off though. Since I'm using Home, Hyper-V is not listed in optional features, and the powershell command Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor doesn't work either.

I uninstalled WSL (using instructions from this post) and rebooted, but hyper-v is still running. How do I turn it off so I can use hardware virtualization for my VMs?

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    I suspect this question must have been asked here before, but I cannot find anything, so apologies if this is a blatant duplicate.
    – nobody
    Mar 12, 2022 at 2:54
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    @Gantendo I've seen that Microsoft one. Thing is, the methods given for disabling Hyper-V work for me. In the Control Panel, the Hyper-V feature isn't listed, and through powershell, I get an error along the lines of "Feature not found". I haven't tried the stackoverflow one yet.
    – nobody
    Mar 12, 2022 at 3:05
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    @Gantendo The stackoverflow method seems to have worked, thanks a lot!
    – nobody
    Mar 12, 2022 at 3:08
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    This seems relevant. Hyper-V cannot actually be enabled on Windows 11 Home. WSL2 does NOT actually require Hyper-V, it requires, Virtual Machine Platform. There is a significant difference. One can be enabled on Windows 11 Home the other cannot. Possible duplicate here and here
    – Ramhound
    Mar 12, 2022 at 5:36
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    @Ramhound I see. Its sort of confusing since Microsoft states WSL2 relies on the Hyper-V architecture, but as you say there seems to be some subtle differences between the two.
    – nobody
    Mar 12, 2022 at 6:17

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Reset to default
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In an elevated Command Prompt write this :

To disable:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

To enable:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

(From comments - restart to take effect)

Credit: LukeSkCzEnDeRuPl

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