On 04/08/2010 05:48 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> 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
Thanks, Frank.
I ran lsmod | grep kvm. No KVM modules loaded here. For now I'll sit
tight running 1 CPU and all the AMD-V extensions disabled. I'll
address fixing the problem next week when I have time to deal with it.
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