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
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