Cowork UI shows nothing on click - VM starts (confirmed in Hyper-V logs) but UI never connects - Windows 11 Pro, Legion Pro 5 16IRX10

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 18, 2026 by civanus Closed Apr 22, 2026

Preflight Checklist

  • [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
  • [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
  • [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2
Hardware: Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX10, Intel i7-14650HX, RTX 5060, 16GB RAM
Claude Desktop version: [vezi în Help → About]

Issue: Clicking Cowork tab shows nothing. No error, no spinner, no UI.

Confirmed working:

  • Hyper-V fully enabled (all features + Virtual Machine Platform + Windows Hypervisor Platform)
  • bcdedit hypervisorlaunchtype = Auto
  • CoworkVMService running
  • vmcompute running
  • vmms running
  • Hyper-V Worker Admin logs confirm VM "cowork-vm-f28974d7" started successfully
  • WSL2 works perfectly

Not working:

  • Get-VM returns empty (VM disappears after start)
  • %APPDATA%\Claude\logs folder does not exist
  • UI never displays anything in Cowork tab

What Should Happen?

Claude Cowork should start from Claude desktop.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2
Hardware: Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX10, Intel i7-14650HX, RTX 5060, 16GB RAM
Claude Desktop version: [vezi în Help → About]

Issue: Clicking Cowork tab shows nothing. No error, no spinner, no UI.

Confirmed working:

  • Hyper-V fully enabled (all features + Virtual Machine Platform + Windows Hypervisor Platform)
  • bcdedit hypervisorlaunchtype = Auto
  • CoworkVMService running
  • vmcompute running
  • vmms running
  • Hyper-V Worker Admin logs confirm VM "cowork-vm-f28974d7" started successfully
  • WSL2 works perfectly

Not working:

  • Get-VM returns empty (VM disappears after start)
  • %APPDATA%\Claude\logs folder does not exist
  • UI never displays anything in Cowork tab

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

1.3109

Platform

Other

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

PowerShell

Additional Information

_No response_

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