I have seen this or similar happening before. Would you try disabling virtualisation in the bios, shutdown, restart and then re-enable it. Sometimes this fixes it.
On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 16:53 +1100, h via luv-main wrote: > I am a hobbyist, running a desktop, latest version, open-suse (15.0) > system. > > I have recently changed to an AMD processor having used intel for a > long time. I generally format and do a clean install on /, but > have a /home partition which has been around for many years and may > contain entries related to the intel processor rather than the amd > one. > > I am trying to install and run virtual box. > > On starting a virtual machine I get a message: > AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by the host OS) > (VERR_SVM_DISABLED). > > My BIOS says that "Secure Virtual Machine" is enabled. > > cat cpuinfo |grep svm > shows that svm is on each core. > > dmidecode does NOT list the svm flag > > > Further system info: > Base Board Information > Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. > Product Name: B350M PRO-VDH (MS-7A38) > Version: 2.0 > Processor Information > Socket Designation: AM4 > Type: Central Processor > Family: Zen > Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > Signature: Family 23, Model 1, Stepping 1 > > > Thinking there may be detritus in my /home partition, I have > created a new user, but experienced the same problem when starting > the > virtual machine. > > Any help on 'how to make virtual box work' would be appreciated, > also any info on why cpuinfo says svm is available, but dmidecode > does > not? > > I am on and off line at the moment, so may take time to respond. > > Thank you in advance! > H > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
