VirtualBox 6.1.6 and 6.1.8 failled to start virtual machines

[asyropoulos]

Hello,

I have used VirtualBox successfully under Illumos/OpenIndiana (the open version of Solaris). However, today I upgraded my system and I cannot run VirtualBox version 6.1.6 r137129. My system has ab AMD FX-6300 Six-core processor and AMD-V is enable. When the I try to run either Windows XP or Windows 7 I get the following message:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win7.

VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please close all other virtualization programs. (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).

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

KVM is not installed in my system:

$ pkg list kvm

pkg list: no packages matching the following patterns are installed: kvm

Also bhyve is not installed inthis system:

$ pkg list bhyve

pkg list: no packages matching the following patterns are installed: bhyve

Since I have no idea what is going I thouggt someone here might be able to help fixing this problem.

Regards,

Apostolos

PS Setting export VBOX_HWVIRTEX_IGNORE_SVM_IN_USE=true on a terminal and running VBox from there does not solve the problem...

PSS I have also used a build of VBox 6.1.8 and I see exactly the same behavior

[paulson]

However, today I upgraded my system and I cannot run VirtualBox version 6.1.6 r137129.

What version of VirtualBox were you using previously which did work?

My system has an AMD FX-6300 Six-core processor and AMD-V is enable. When the I try to run either Windows XP or Windows 7 I get the following message:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win7.

VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please close all other virtualization programs. (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).

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

Based on the following VirtualBox forum discussions is it possible that this is a BIOS problem which requires a BIOS upgrade?

• ​https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=94887
• ​https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=60989

Can you attach a VBox.log containing the failure in case there are any further clues there?

[chowiherrera]

Same problem using VirtualBox 6.1 (in Ubuntu 20.04)

Solved uninstalling VirtualBox 6.1, and installing instead, version 6.0 from the "Old Builds" page: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds

The virtual machine that caused this problem, was created in Lubuntu 19.04, using VirtualBox 6.0 and using Windows XP 32 bits as guest OS

Good Luck!