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I have downloaded a prebuilt Ubuntu virtual machine and I am trying to run it using Virtualbox 6.1. I see this when opening the settings of the virtual machine and the virtual machine will not start.

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I have tried selecting the Acceleration tab in System settings and unticking: "Hardware Virtualisation", but the message does not disappear and I cannot click ok (because it is greyed out - I assume the button can be clicked once the issues are resolved); only cancel.

I believe my Motherboard (P6X58D-E version 0502) and CPU (Core I7 950) supports acceleration as described here: Cannot enable Intel VT-d in the BIOS. Virtualisation is enabled according to task manager:

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Here are my CPU BIOS settings:

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Intel VT-d Configuration/Intel VT-d is disabled in the BIOS because of the issue described in the thread I have linked to. However, the answerer says it does not need to be enabled for acceleration.

What else can I do?

Update

  1. I have the Docker v19.03.13 installed, however it is not running
  2. I have tried VirtualBox versions 6.0.24-139119 and VirtualBox-6.1.18-142142.
  3. I have AVG installed
  4. I have the following windows features. I have tried disabling hyperv, however I want to use VirtualBox with hyperv ideally (is there a way to find out what is using vt-x?):

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w0051977
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Virtualbox may have difficulties co-existing with Hyper-V.

Try to disable the Windows features of "Hyper-V" and "Virtual Machine Platform". I notice that you have installed the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and without these features you will be limited to WSL version 1 which is slightly less performant if you're a heavy user of it.

If it doesn't help, you could perhaps try VMware instead of Virtualbox, to see if it has better hardware support for your computer (leaving the above Windows features disabled for the moment).

harrymc
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