Docker for Windows error: "Hardware assisted virtualization and data execution protection must be enabled in the BIOS"

If the features described are enabled, the problem is with Hyper-V that is disabled or Hypervisor agent not running.

SOLUTION A (If Hyper-V is totally disabled or not installed)

Open PowerShell as administrator and Enable Hyper-V with dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V /All

SOLUTION B (If Hyper-V feature is already enabled but doesn't work)

Enable Hypervisor with

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

Now restart the system and try again.

SOLUTION C

If the problem persists, probably Hyper-V on your system is corrupted, so

Go in Control Panel -> [Programs] -> [Windows Features] and completely uncheck all Hyper-V related components. Restart the system. Enable Hyper-V again. Restart.

NOTE 1:

Hyper-V needs hardware virtualization as prerequisite. Make sure your PC supports it, if yes and still won't work, there is the possibility your BIOS is not configured correctly and this feature is disabled. In this case, check, enable it and try again. The virtualization features could be reported under different names according the platform used (e.g if you don't see any option that uses virtualization label explicitly, on AMD you have to check SVM feature state, on Intel the VT-x feature state).

NOTE 2:

Hyper-V can be installed only with some version e.g.:

Windows 10 Enterprise; Windows 10 Professional; Windows 10 Education.

Hyper-V cannot be installed on cheaper or mobile Windows versions e.g.:

Windows 10 Home; Windows 10 Mobile; Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise.

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Below is working solution for me, please follow these steps

Open PowerShell as administrator or CMD prompt as administrator Run this command in PowerShell-> bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto Now restart the system and try again.

cheers.

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In my case I had to enable virtualization in the BIOS setting.

Restart PC While you are on the 'restart' screen press any of these keys and you enter the bios settings in windows: esc, f1, f2, f3, f4, f8 or delete For intel based systems: press f7 (advanced mode) go to advanced cpa configuration enable virtualization

And after all above steps, it finally works :-)

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I uninstalled Intel HAXM and VirtualBox, Docker now runs

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Note: If your version of Windows supports Hyper-V, you can install docker directly by selecting Use Hyper-V during installation. However, if your Windows does not have this support, follow the solution below.

I had a similar problem. I have enabled Intel Virtual Technology in the bios settings.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/GSdk8.jpg

Then I updated the Linux kernel from here. and it worked

My specs:

Microsoft Windows 10 Home x64 Single Language

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300 @ 2.50GHz

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For me, all I had to do it uninstalling VMware.

Docker now is running

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Open the task manager and click on the performance tab. If virtualization is disabled, you need to follow the instructions here to enable it: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2015/09/08/step-by-step-enabling-hyper-v-for-use-on-windows-10/

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Try these steps

Run this command in powershell bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto Restart your PC Now try docker --version in cmd line

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Can you try enabling Hyper-V manually, and potentially creating and running a Hyper-V VM manually? Details:

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/#/what-to-know-before-you-install

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyperv_on_windows/quick_start/walkthrough_install

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In my case I had to uninstall hyper-v, restart pc, and run docker again.

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Try this in PowerShell(admin enabled):

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V –All -NoRestart

This will install HyperVisor without management tools, and then you can run Docker after this.

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I also use vagrant. It appears I can only use 1 thing at a time. Uninstalling vagrant/virtualBox allowed me to run docker and vise versa

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I have tried many suggestions above but docker keeps complaining about hardware assisted virtualization error. Virtualization is enabled in BIOS, and also Hyper-V is installed and enabled. After a few try and errors, I eventually downloaded coreinfo tool and found out that Hypervisor was not actually enabled. Using ISE (64 bit) as admin and run command from above Solution B and that enables Hypervisor successfully (checked via coreinfo -v again). After restart, docker is now running successfully.

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In my case even though I used all the solutions mentioned above but nothing worked for me. So I decided to uninstall docker and install it again.

Now in the process, I have noticed that I did not check Use Windows containers instead of Linux containers (this can be changed after installation) in my previous installation, and that is why I got the problem above and the solutions still did not fix it. So ensure to check it before you run desktop docker or uninstall it and install it again by checking this option.

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Enable the Hyper-V role through Settings Right click on the Windows button/Icon and select ‘Apps and Features’.

1- Select Programs and Features on the right under related settings.

2- Select Turn Windows Features on or off.

2- Select Hyper-V and click OK.

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If solution above does not work, then Go to command prompt and type systeminfo. check Hyper-V Requirements section. If all listed Hyper-V requirements have a value of Yes, your system can run the Hyper-V role. In my case virtualization enable in Firmware was NO. So, I did enabled in system bios by making Virtualization Technology enabled in my HP laptop. Please visit this link to enable it: https://2nwiki.2n.cz/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75202968

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For me, disabling and then enabling Virtualisation in BIOS helped, strangely.

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It helped me:

Disable components Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux

Restart

Enable components

Restart

I think my problem was related to beta version of WSL2. I tried to install android subsystem. But I have deleted it some time ago. So, there was only beta WSL2 left

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Issue for me was solved when I uninstalled Cygwin.

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I tried many of the suggestions here, but did not manage to get it running. What worked for me in the end was to go straight in to the BIOS to activate it. The following article was of great help: https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-enable-configure-and-use-hyper-v-on-windows-10

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@Silverstorm

I had Hyperv installed and virtualization enabled in my BIOS.

But SOLUTION A didn't work for me.

However, SOLUTION B worked like a charm.

SOLUTION B (If Hyper-V feature is already enabled but doesn't work)

Enable Hypervisor with

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto Now restart the system and try again.

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Besides the original answer, I have done the following:

Disable Hyper-V in Windows Features

Turning virtualization off and on in BIOS

Log back in windows, enabled Hyper-V. I was prompted there are updates for Hyper-V and I did the update. Restart when prompted.

It worked!

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If everything is fine with BIOS option I just forced disabling and enabling all HyperV features and this solved my issue --cmd Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-All --restart Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V –All

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If the problem persists probably Hyper-V on your system is corrupted, so

Go in Control Panel -> [Programs] -> [Windows Features] and completely uncheck all Hyper-V related components. Restart the system.

Enable Hyper-V again. Restart.

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I had the same issue after installing VMWare, I uninstalled it but this didn't fix the issue.

Solution for me: in "Turn windows features on or off" I turned off:

hyper-v

containers

windows subsystem for linux

then restart

After the restart I got this message from docker:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/CQXrn.png

I ran the ran the command as said in the message

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName $("VirtualMachinePlatform", "Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux")

Then restart and voilà, Docker was back with WSL2

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follow the steps bellow:

go to: windows setting => Update & Security => Recovery => Advanced Startup and click on : Restart Now. Troubleshoot => Advanced Option => UEFI Firmware => Restart. go to Bios => configuration => Virtualization technology => enable it. save change and it will works.

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I had to uninstall VirtualBox to get it to work, such a pity!

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