Improper detection of Virtual Machine Platform

[nt-baker]

Bug description

While trying to install Podman during Podman Desktop setup, it claims that Virtual Machine Platform is not enabled even though Windows itself says it is.

The setup correctly detects that WSL2 is installed and up-to-date. I'm not sure it's possible to have that without Virtual Machine Platform being enabled.

Operating system

Windows 10 Enterprise

Installation Method

Installer from website/GitHub releases

Version

1.10.2

Steps to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

No response

Additional context

Docker Desktop is also installed, and able to use WSL2 - not sure if that could cause some kind of interference.

[benoitf]

hi @nt-baker

the detection code is using powershell with the command

(Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * from Win32_OptionalFeature where InstallState = \'1\'").Name | select-string VirtualMachinePlatform

could you try on a shell and provides the response ?

[nt-baker]

From Powershell 5:

I tried a number of more basic uses of the Get-WmiObject command, most of which failed. It seems like my WMI repository is corrupt. (Based on this StackOverflow thread) So it fails to query classes that would ordinarily be available.

Going to try to restore my WMI repository.

[odockal]

@nt-baker Did it help? Is the issue gone?