Issues with virtual machine

[Alice951]

Hi, so i'm trying to get a virtual machine working on windows 10, i'm trying to make the virtual machine run Linux Ubuntu and whenever i try to start the virtual machine, it fails to start and i just get these errors. Does anyone have any advice or tips to get it working?

 

 

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Linux Ubuntu.

 

Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE).

VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).

Result Code:	E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:	ConsoleWrap
Interface:	IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

 

[jj9987]

4 minutes ago, Alice951 said:

VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).

There's your problem. VT-x or VT-d is disabled. in BIOS.

[Eigenvektor]

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VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes

Either your CPU doesn't support VT-x or, as the message suggests, it is disabled in BIOS.

[Alice951]

ah ok, i'll have to look into that

[Eigenvektor]

6 minutes ago, Alice951 said:

ah ok, i'll have to look into that

Most hypervisors (e.g. Hyper-V, VirtualBox) require hardware support to work. That's not an issue with the guest OS (e.g. Ubuntu). If you don't have hardware support, you can look at QEMU, but it'll be slower if you don't have hardware support for VMs in the CPU.

[Alice951]

33 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Most hypervisors (e.g. Hyper-V, VirtualBox) require hardware support to work. That's not an issue with the guest OS (e.g. Ubuntu). If you don't have hardware support, you can look at QEMU, but it'll be slower if you don't have hardware support for VMs in the CPU.

yeah, i dont think my hardware supports vm's as there is noVT-x in my bios, i'll look into that, thanks

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, Alice951 said:

yeah, i dont think my hardware supports vm's as there is noVT-x in my bios, i'll look into that, thanks

What CPU do you have, then we could check. The option isn't necessarily called "VT-x" in BIOS, it may just be called something like "hardware virtualization".

[Alice951]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

What CPU do you have, then we could check. The option isn't necessarily called "VT-x" in BIOS, it may just be called something like "hardware virtualization".

My cpu is the i5 2500k

[Eigenvektor]

4 minutes ago, Alice951 said:

My cpu is the i5 2500k

The 2500k does support VT-x (no VT-d though): Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor

 

In my BIOS, the option is under Advanced > CPU > Intel Virtualization Technology. Obviously your BIOS could be different, but look for an option that mentions virtualization. That should be set to enabled.

[Alice951]

15 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

The 2500k does support VT-x (no VT-d though): Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor

 

In my BIOS, the option is under Advanced > CPU > Intel Virtualization Technology. Obviously your BIOS could be different, but look for an option that mentions virtualization. That should be set to enabled.

ok,thanks!

[Alice951]

16 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

The 2500k does support VT-x (no VT-d though): Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor

 

In my BIOS, the option is under Advanced > CPU > Intel Virtualization Technology. Obviously your BIOS could be different, but look for an option that mentions virtualization. That should be set to enabled.

so i no longer get the previous error, however when i attempt to boot it i now get this error and i'm not too sure how to go about changing the kernel

[Eigenvektor]

This means you downloaded a 64 bit version of Ubuntu, but the VM/host has a 32 bit CPU. You would need a 32 bit version of Ubuntu (which hasn't been available in years).

 

Are you using a 32 bit version of Windows? Because I think that might the issue here, the 2500k is a 64 bit capable CPU.

[Alice951]

29 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

This means you downloaded a 64 bit version of Ubuntu, but the VM/host has a 32 bit CPU. You would need a 32 bit version of Ubuntu (which hasn't been available in years).

 

Are you using a 32 bit version of Windows? Because I think that might the issue here, the 2500k is a 64 bit capable CPU.

i'm running a 64bit version of windows, could it be a setting in virtual box?

[Alice951]

31 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

This means you downloaded a 64 bit version of Ubuntu, but the VM/host has a 32 bit CPU. You would need a 32 bit version of Ubuntu (which hasn't been available in years).

 

Are you using a 32 bit version of Windows? Because I think that might the issue here, the 2500k is a 64 bit capable CPU.

update, my apolgies i hadn't spotted this option

[Eigenvektor]

8 minutes ago, Alice951 said:

update, my apolgies i hadn't spotted this option

Does it allow you to select 64-bit? I hope so Then you should be good to go.

[Alice951]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

Does it allow you to select 64-bit? I hope so Then you should be good to go.

yep it did lol, however i've booted it up and i'm not sure which i should select as i don't wanna affect my actual operating system?

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, Alice951 said:

yep it did lol, however i've booted it up and i'm not sure which i should select as i don't wanna affect my actual operating system?

Everything you do here happens inside the virtual machine, so don't worry about using the whole disk etc. it won't affect your actual PC.

[Alice951]

2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Everything you do here happens inside the virtual machine, so don't worry about using the whole disk etc. it won't affect your actual PC.

ok, thanks for all the help and info!

[Eigenvektor]

Just now, Alice951 said:

ok, thanks for all the help and info!

You're welcome

[Alice951]

38 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

You're welcome

sorry for being a pain lol, whenever i boot its a tiny window and my resizing options are all grayed out, any tips?

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, Alice951 said:

sorry for being a pain lol, whenever i boot its a tiny window and my resizing options are all grayed out, any tips?

That's normal during boot, because the Grub screen etc. run at a fairly low resolution and the VirtualBox tools aren't active yet. You need to install the VirtualBox guest additions and it should go to full resolution once you've signed in. There's an option to install the guest additions under "Devices" (I think). That should mount a CD in the virtual machine that has the installer on it. You probably need to install kernel header files as a dependency (I think that installer tells you what you need).

 

Alternatively, Ubuntu has the guest additions available in its repository, so you should be able to install them from the software center, but those might not match the version of VirtualBox you have installed.