Home-Hacks

What does it do?

Windows Subsytem for Linux and VMware Workstation player do not play nicely together.

This script uses bcedit to toggle the hypervisorlaunchtype between auto and off. It will show what the current setting is and ask if you would like to switch and restart the computer.

Which setting?

Type	You can use
Auto	WSL
Off	VMware Workstation/VirtualBox

You can execute the script like normal, or you can save the module into your powershell path. View the directories in your PowerShell module path: $env:PSMODULEPATH -split ';'

If you save the module to your path you can simply open powershell and run Import Home-Hacks and then the function should be imported with the module.

"In PowerShell 3.0, PowerShell is able to implicitly import a module when one of the functions or cmdlets in the module is called by a user." $PSVersionTable

Requirements

• Script execution policy must be set per your requirements.

  Get-ExecutionPolicy

  Set-ExecutionPolicy <Bypass|RemoteSigned>

• It must be run in an elevated session.

• Virtualisation must be enabled in BIOS.

How to execute

In PowerShell as Admin run: Switch-HypervisorLaunchType Follow the prompts.