On Saturday 03 April 2010, sdavmor wrote:
> Hardware: AMD Phenom 4 core processor, 8gb ram. Gigabyte motherboard
> < a year old (GA-MA790X-DS4). Hardware virtualization switches are
> "on". Running the 2.6.32-19-generic kernel on a fully up to date Lucid
> Lynx (as of this morning). I can start my VBox 3.1.4 in single core
> mode after disabling AMD-V.
>
> VirtualBox - Error
> Failed to start the virtual machine Win2KOEM.
> 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).
>
> Details
> Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
> Component: Console
> Interface: IConsole {6375231a-c17c-464b-92cb-ae9e128d71c3}
>
> I do not have another hypervisor running. VBox is the only virtual
> machine I've ever used on this computer. I've checked in synaptic --
> no KVM or QEMU or VMWARE in use.
>
> Any constructive thoughts?Might be a BIOS bug but make sure that no KVM modules are loaded (lsmod | grep kvm). You could update VBox to version 3.1.6 and try the following hack: export VBOX_HWVIRTEX_IGNORE_SVM_IN_USE=1 VirtualBox ... But again, don't do this if any KVM module is loaded. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder
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