Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Windows 10  

    Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Windows 10

    Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Windows 10

    Published by Category: Virtualization
    02 Jul 2020
    Designer Media Ltd

    How to Enable or Disable Virtualized GPU (vGPU) Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Windows 10


    Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation. Software installed inside the Windows Sandbox environment remains "sandboxed" and runs separately from the host machine.

    A sandbox is temporary. When it's closed, all the software and files and the state are deleted. You get a brand-new instance of the sandbox every time you open the application.

    Starting with Windows 10 build 20161, a new group policy setting was added that enables or disables the virtualized GPU.

    If you enable this policy setting, vGPU will be supported in the Windows Sandbox.

    If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows Sandbox will use software rendering, which can be slower than virtualized GPU.

    This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable virtualized GPU (vGPU) sharing for Windows Sandbox for all users in Windows 10.

    You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable virtualized vGPU sharing for Windows Sandbox.

    Windows Sandbox is only available for the Windows 10 Pro and Windows Enterprise editions build 18305 and higher.


    Enabling virtualized GPU can potentially increase the attack surface of the sandbox.



    Contents

    • Option One: Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Local Group Policy Editor
    • Option Two: Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox using a REG file






    OPTION ONE

    Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Local Group Policy Editor


    1 Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

    2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor. (see screenshot below)

    Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Sandbox

    Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Windows 10-windows_sandbox_vgpu_gpedit-1.png

    3 In the right pane of Windows Sandbox in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Allow vGPU sharing with Windows Sandbox policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

    4 Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


    5 To Enable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox

    A) Select (dot) Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

    6 To Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox

    A) Select (dot) Disabled or Not Configured, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

    Not Configured is the default setting.

    Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox in Windows 10-windows_sandbox_vgpu_gpedit-2.png


    7 Close the Local Group Policy Editor.






    OPTION TWO

    Enable or Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox using a REG file


    The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Sandbox

    AllowVGPU DWORD

    (delete) = Disable
    1 = Enable


    1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


    2 To Enable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox

    A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

    Enable_vGPU_sharing_for_Windows_Sandbox.reg

    Download


    3 To Disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox

    This is the default setting.

    A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

    Disable_vGPU_sharing_for_Windows_Sandbox.reg

    Download


    4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

    5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

    6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

    7 You could now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


    That's it,
    Shawn






  1. Posts : 1,308
    Windows 10
       #1

    I have been dabbling for a couple of days with this feature finding it vanilla and not much showcases on it working .

    Basically if I understand correctly from my researches it is only aimed for laptops with Intel GPU & Nvidia / AMD higher performance GPU where when enabled the sandbox will persist to show the main card as VM Video card with low capabilities but will show the higher performance GPU in device manager as a secondary option just as it is with dual graphics laptops normally .

    The problem is all my researches show people complaining its not working , that I even have a post by a MVP replying to someone wondering why he cant get it to work that the sandbox environment is pretty basic and may not support video or gaming what so ever found on the Microsoft support forum .

    Then a guy on Youtube posted a video that it works smoother on Windows 11 than it would on Windows 10 and he did show it appearing in device manager , he made me revert to Windows 11 only to find it all the same , no presence of it what so ever despite even applying upper patches .

    Now I returned to that post on Youtube to find the entire comments wondering how he made it work as its not acting the same for which where the guy decided to reply maybe its a driver issue for them .

    Honestly I tried switching between last driver in all generations of Nvidia (3xx/4xx/5xx) to no use , so bottom line is this thing vanilla really or there are any mean to make it work ? If so , how ?




    PS: Please Provide driver version to install if it was really a driver issue , thanks in advance!
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