On 08/10/13 11:15, Daniel Jitnah wrote: > Hi Allan > > Which version of Virtualbox is that? Is it a recent one? > > Recent ones seem handle KVM presence better. Older ones have trouble. > > There is an option to disable hardware virtualisation extension: > > Settings->System->Acceleration. > > Do you have this on? You dont need to disable KVM is you turn h/ware > extension off. But this may not be what you want. > > Daniel
It doesn't work - if you want 64-bit you must have it, see below. > > On 08/10/13 11:01, Allan Duncan wrote: >> I have VirtualBox up and running fine with a 32-bit XP image, but when I >> tried to configure a 64-bit linux machine VirtualBox barfs when you try >> to start it with: >> >> Failed to open a session for the virtual machine linux_test. >> AMD-V is being used by another hypervisor. (VERR_SVM_IN_USE). >> VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please disable the KVM >> kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_SVM_IN_USE). >> >> Searching for this found a match, but their solution of >> rmmod kvm_amd kvm >> I had already tried with modprobe -r and it doesn't fix it anyway. >> >> I've tried with both 3.10.11 and 3.11.2 from fedora. >> >> I am unable to see any kvm that is already running, and - more to the >> point - what causes kvm_amd to be loaded in the first place, since rmmod >> happily unloads what must be an unused module. >> >> Playing around a bit, VirtualBox says that it turns on the AMD-V option >> automatically if a 64-bit VM is selected. >> >> Btw, the .vdi was converted from the raw - a bootable usb stick with a >> full blown fedora OS on it. I can't see that having any relevance as >> the error comes up before any boot process has happened. >> >> Suggestions please - I can do a kernel recompile, but what I have to >> disable isn't clear. >> _______________________________________________ >> luv-main mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main > > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
