Cannot enable hyper-v service

Docker Desktop
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works for me, thanks

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Iā€™d recommend switching to WSL2 assuming you can upgrade to Windows version 2004, OS build 19041 (May 2020 update). It uses Hyper-V technologies so that needs to be enabled in the BIOS, but WSL2 also runs on Windows Home. Itā€™s significantly faster.

See Windows Subsystem for Linux 2: The Complete Guide ā€“ it contains a Docker section.

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I had to restore my BIOS settings due to a PC keyboard malfunctioning. After that, Intel virtualization feature was disabled in the BIOS. Iā€™ve turned back on, but when Docker was trying to start I got the ā€œCannot enable Hyper-V serviceā€ error (it was previously working before BIOS reset).

Solution:

  1. turn off Windows Hyper-V feature
  2. turn on Windows Hyper-V feature

Thanks to @mituramikolaj for the solution.

Cheers

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Hello,

I have the same issue I try google and so many ways to fix it But I can not to fix it. Anyone can help me. I donā€™t mind to remote to fix it I need it ASAP.

Thanks

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This works for me, thanks

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Thanks, switching to Windows containers in the task menu worked for me.

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I followed the youtube nothing worked could it be that I need to update BIOS

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I tried the remove/re-add from windows features but it did not work. And the machine I was doing was remote so I couldnā€™t hit the keys to cause the bios settings to appear.

So I finally noticed that if I told the pop Windows error I saw to ā€œcontinueā€ rather than ā€œquitā€, I could then use the option offered to ā€œswitch to wsl2ā€. (This was an older machine on which Iā€™d had an older Docker Desktop from a couple of years ago.)

just sharing that in case it may help someone else in a similar boat. (The conversion to WSL2 is taking a long time. I hope it will go well and that I wonā€™t lose the images I had. Folks may want to be prepared to recover from that should it happen to you. But as it was, I couldnā€™t get DD to open otherwise, so it was hosed anyway it seems.)

But Iā€™ve done the conversion to WSL2 on other machines in the past and recall some where I did NOT lose my images. I may not remember to come back here and report, but if anyone sees this and may be interested (before they would do it), if you offer a reply that will get to me and Iā€™d hope to come back with an update.

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Same for me as well. Is this issue rsolved? How do you fix it?

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I tried all the method incl some from Stackoverflow.com, didnā€™t work.
Hyper-V and Virtualisation was enabled but its services didnā€™t run

I updated wsl to wsl 2, refer here to update.
Then after restart, I opened docker desktop, it works

PS: it also asked for permission to run docker on wsl 2, I also updated Docker desktop(which didnt work previously)

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Worked for me, thanks, it certainly easier than wiping and reinstalling DD!

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Same here, trying to solve.

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Works for me, thanks!