June 16, 20242 yr Hi, I'm learning IT and thought I'd force myself to dive into the deep end. I set up a PC* running with Unraid, and now, I'm figuring out if I can wrangle nested virtualisation for classes. This machine also runs my Plex NAS hence Unraid. So far, I've managed to get a Windows 11 VM up and running with 8 cores, 8 threads pinned and isolated, GPU passthrough with vBIOS, NVME passthrough, and more. This setup has been working perfectly. I can boot straight into Windows 11 bare-metal and load VMware, and the nested Windows 11 VM works fine. (Windows 11 > VMware > Windows 11 VM) However, I'm encountering a persistent issue. When I boot Unraid, spin up my Windows 11 VM, then VMware and start the nested Windows 11 VM, I keep getting the DWM.exe has crashed error. I'm not sure what's causing this. (Unraid > Windows 11 VM > VMware > Windows 11 VM). My Kali Linux VM works perfectly in the same manner. I'm hoping I can move past this small Windows error with help. As I said earlier, I'm a student, so I want to learn, but I've just gotten stuck here, and I was hoping for suggestions to help me pass this minor roadblock. *AMD 5950x, B550, 64 GB RAM, RTX 3090, NVME for Windows 11 VM...
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