Can Docker Desktop For Windows Use A Different Hyper-V Linux VM For Docker Engine?

MobyLinuxVM hangs on bootup for me as I am running my Windows 10 host as a vm inside vmware workstation so am effectively nesting virtualisation (leading to the No Activity Detected error message).

However, I have managed to create new vm’s on this host using docker-machine that work completely fine as docker engines and do not have this issue with running inside a nested vm.

Is there any way to point the Docker Desktop client to this new working docker-machine vm so that when I select the “Switch to Linux Containers” menu option, Docker Desktop uses it rather than attempts to spin up a new MobyLinuxVM that doesnt work?