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I have Ubuntu 22.04 installed in my desktop computer with an AMD processor, I've worked a lot with docker-dekstop in my machine without any problem.

I just recently installed VirtualBox in it and created a Windows 11 virtual machine. Everything went well until I realized docker-desktop and VirtualBox can not run together at the same time for some reason.

I have detected two different scenarios.

  • If VirtualBox is playing the Windows 11 machine, when I open docker-desktop it never starts. I just get this message and it never passes this stage.

    docker-starting

  • On the other hand, if docker-desktop was turned on before starting the virtual machine I get this error.

    VERR_SVM_IN_USE-err

I have already tried all of these solutions suggested in these two posts, but no luck so far:

If it helps, I also have the VirtualBox Extension Pack installed:

vbox-ext-pack

Now, I'm just wondering why this is happening and if there is any chance to make this work or if it is simply impossible and whenever I want to use one of them I have to stop the other process.

Pablo Bianchi
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    As far as I've seen, Docker and VirtualBox do not play well together on *any* host operating system, not just Ubuntu. If the goal is to run Windows, it may be possible to do this inside a Docker container (I know that Win10 and earlier will run in a Docker container with RDP) – matigo Sep 21 '22 at 04:17
  • Since, docker desktop uses Qemu so, [this post could be helpful to understand](https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/10srsj6/how_do_i_run_qemukvm_and_virtualbox_at_the_same/) the problem better. – Aakura Pyakura Feb 07 '23 at 09:44

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