Hardware assisted virtualization and data execution protection

Docker Desktop
1

Hi all,

When I try to start Docker Desktop, I get this message which never appeared before:

“Hardware assisted virtualization and data execution protection must be enabled in the BIOS”

I read some other messages in this forum about this problem but none of the suggested solutions worked.

In the BIOS hyper virtualisation is enabled. I checked again in Task Manager and it also says “enabled”.

I didn’t change anything recently and suddenly I get this error message.

How can this be solved?

Thanks in advance for any reaction!

2

Check your firewall and antivirus in your system can block the connection, temporary disable them and then retry to start them.

3

Thanks for your reply.

I tried that: both together and apart, didn’t work.

Would be strange if it did, because I didn’t change anything and it has worked perfectly fine for months.

But, of course, it must have a “reason” for this error.

4

On what platorm? I can only guess that it is Windows as you mentioned Task Manager.It could be that the OS was updated automatically or I could imagine as hardware issue as well.

5

The OS is = Windows 11

6

The same way the problem appeared, out of nothing, the same way it went away… :slight_smile:

After a reboot (which I also tried earlier obviously), Docker works back like it used to.

Thanks both of you for the advice!!

7

Thank you for sharing this unexpected outcome. If you ever find out what it was caused by, please share it with us.