A "fun" thing about Docker Desktop on Windows is that it requires Hyper-V. And it so happens that Hyper-V is usually incompatible with AMD SVN (Their virtualization acceleration). So it's impossible to simulatenously use VirtualBox and Docker Desktop, unless you're okay with horrible performance on the latter.
Personally, i think that VirtualBox is really nice as far as virtualization software goes (the UI in particular having good usability), but admittedly Hyper-V is also good for when you cannot run it.
That said, for a while i actually ran VirtualBox on some of my homelab servers as a really simple hypervisor, since software like RemoteBox kept the familiar and easy to use UI and allowed me to use it as a desktop app: https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about
> ...for WSL2 you only need "Virtual Machine Platform" (a subset of Hyper-V) and "Windows Subsystem for Linux" features, both available in Home edition.
> However, recently both VirtualBox and VMware have released versions that support Hyper-V and WSL2. Learn more about VirtualBox's changes here and VMware's changes here. For troubleshooting issues, take a look at the VirtualBox issue discussions in the WSL repo on GitHub.
I'm running both Docker and VirtualBox on my 5950x in Win11; don't remember doing anything special, but VirtualBox chose Hyper-V as the hypervisor technology, maybe it didn't default to that for you.
