Running Claude Desktop for Windows (v1.1.3647) inside a virtual machine and it’s basically unusable. The app constantly freezes, conversations get lost, and the UI is sluggish. Prior to lastest update was fine. After digging through ~75k lines of logs, the main culprit seems to be the Cowork VM service. Since I’m already in a VM without nested virtualization enabled, the Cowork VM can’t start — but the app doesn’t gracefully handle this. Instead it: Spams “VM service not running. The service failed to start” 119 times per session CustomPlugins.listAvailablePlugins fires on every page load, fails, and React Query retries endlessly This cascades into message_store_sync_blocked errors (27 occurrences) and lost conversations There’s no CoworkVMService Windows service to disable, no vm_bundles folder to delete, and no config option to turn Cowork off. The claude_desktop_config.json preferences like coworkScheduledTasksEnabled: false and sidebarMode: “chat” don’t stop the retry loop. Other issues in the logs: EventEmitter memory leaks (MaxListenersExceeded on every restart), React hydration errors, CSP blocking Anthropic’s own domains, and API timeouts causing sync failures. Environment: Windows VM, VirtualizationFirmwareEnabled: False , no Hyper-V available Has anyone found a way to actually disable the Cowork/VM subsystem? Or is the only option to switch to claude.ai in a browser? submitted by /u/satelliteau
Originally posted by u/satelliteau on r/ClaudeCode
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