VT-x option is missing Surface Laptop 3 BIOS menu(Intel i7-1065G7 procesor), without this VT-x enabled, I cannot run any virtualization on Windows. Anyone encountered the same problem and know how to fix?
Bit late on the response so I dont know if you have worked this out already, but it might help someone else. I also have a Surface Laptop 3 but with an AMD CPU etc. Virtualisation was also missing on my BIOS. My issue was that when using Oracle VirtualBox, the 'Start' opting to begin installing Ubuntu was 'grayed out' or unable to be selected. After searching around, all I needed to proceed with installing Ubuntu was to do what this guide says.
Essentially I just searched in the Windows taskbar 'Turn Windows features on our off'. Here I was able to enable 'Virtual Machines Platform'. I also enabled Windows Hypervisor Platform although I am not sure if this is necessary. Restarted the system and I was able to proceed and install Ubuntu through VirtualBox! Hope this helps!
I found a little option using the Oracle Virtual Box for the Intel version of your Surface!
In the Task Manager, under Performance, you can check that virtualization is disabled. Just follow my easy steps:
Run VirtualBox as an administrator
Create new virtual machine (it doesn't matter what you choose)
Run it for the first time
Go to Machine Settings > System > Processor—as you can see, it is set to a default of 1
Change the number from one core to more than one and somewhere on the bottom side of the GUI you could see an attention icon that says something like
virtualization off. If you save these setting it will be automatically turned on
Just press OK and voila! It will be turned on!
Now when I type this response I checked too if it is enabled in Task Manager and it was, so yeah!
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i have several virtual machines running on virtual box on my main Ubuntu OS.
But after the security updates (Spectre and Meltdown) on windows they weirdly stopped working.
I tried looking up the problem on google but it seems like no one else has experienced this problem.
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I have 2 OS-Systems (Windows/Ubuntu) running on a dual boot.
I have VT-X/AMD-v enabled in my BIOS settings and i disabled Hyper-V
on my Windows machine
I dont know how those two OS-Systems are even connect but i noticed
that my time switches about a hour if i first start Ubuntu and then
Windows. Therefore i guess that they are linked in some way
Some of the Virtual Machines require VT-X/AMD-v. I tried starting
those who dont require VT-X/AMD-v without it and they worked fine.
All machines worked perfectly fine before
Not sure if this question is off-topic on this website. If it is i'd be happy if someone can link me to places where this question is suitable.
What you experience is most likely a bug in the Virtualbox. Submit an issue to their bug tracker.
I have VT-X/AMD-v enabled in my BIOS settings and i disabled Hyper-V on my Windows machine
This is fine and is actually required.
my time switches about a hour if i first start Ubuntu and then Windows.
Most likely the timezone settings are different in two OSes, or one OS assumes that the CMOS clock runs in UTC and another thinks it is in local time zone. It has nothing to do with your problem.
Some of the Virtual Machines require VT-X/AMD-v.
Apparently pure application level software works fine, but hardware-accelerated VMMs require kernel modules to be loaded, and those may need adjustments after kernel updates, especially so drastic ones.
Not sure if this question is off-topic on this website.
Yes, it looks like this question is more suitable for ServerFault https://serverfault.com/
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I have this error:
VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).
I have tried Enabling PAE/NX, Disabling PAE/NX and neither worked.
Also, I have increased my RAM to the maximum before I get an error, 5309MB.
If I increase my ram higher I get Invalid Settings Detected. (not when I boot up, it says on the settings/system/motherboard.
It boots for a quarter second and gives me the error.
Any help appreciated, I have tried just about every online solution I could find but none seemed to change a thing.
OS: Windows 8 x86 Bit and I installed as Windows 8 x32 Bit so I'm not sure if thats a problem.
I am new to Virtual box myself. Faced the same issue and found the fix to be:
1. Enable virtualization from BiOS setup
2. Enable PAE/NX in virtual box
Though I do not have an x86 machine so cannot check for that.
Hope this helps.
I have a Kubuntu 12.10 64bit as host and CentOS 6 32bit as guest system on VMware player 5 on a Dell Latitude E6510.
Despite the installation of VMware tools, the clipboard exchange is not working.
I use a very similar guest system within VirtualBox and there cliboard exchange works fine.
Has someone experienced the same with a configuration similar to mine?
And is it possible, that the guest system causes the problem instead of the player?
I've found thaht suspending and then re-playing the VM will re-enable clipboard exchange.
Clipboard exchange will then work both between VMs and the Host machine as well as between VMs themselves.
(VMWare Player 5.0, Windows 7)
After having installed several constellations like that, I experienced, that in general it works, I can exchange the clipboard in both ways and even the desktop size adapts to the size of the VM window, but still from time to time having a situation, where it doesn't work and also heard of many other people who experienced that.
So, if someone can enlighten me on that point, I'll be happy, but I'm closing my question hereby.
Our Direct3D9 app works perfectly if we fully start Windows, and then launch it.
However, if we tweak Windows' startup process so that Explorer is not ran, and just Windows and our application are started, our app slows down horribly. CPU consumption goes to 50%, even when idle (normally, it's near 0).
This can be fixed by starting the Task Manager, starting Explorer and restarting our app. But that's not acceptable; our app must run without Explorer.
Could this be a Direct3D thing? Our app is full screen, Windows version is XP SP3 with all latest updates, and Direct3D version is 9.0.c. If this is not Direct3D related, how could I go about debugging this?
Solved it. Went to Control Panel->UserAccounts->Change the way users log on or off and saw that "Use the Welcome screen" was checked.
Unchecking that solved it. It seems that when the Welcome screen is active, since it uses a different resolution than the desktop's, conflicts ensue. And I didn't check, but it seems that this caused hardware acceleration to be temporarily unavailable and thus software rendering was selected, killing the CPU.
I've been hearing a lot about about how the new version of VMWare Fusion can run virtual operating systems in "headless mode".
A Google search makes it clear that other virtualisation products also have similar features, however, I have not been able to find a good description of what this actually means? What is happening when you do this?
Headless mode means that the virtual machine is running in the background without any foreground elements visible (like the Vmware Fusion application)
You would have no screen to see running the front end; i.e. the screen/console would not be visible, even though the operating system is running, and would typically have to access the machine via SSH.
For anyone that is interested, you can activate headless mode in VMWare Fusion by running the following command in Terminal.app
defaults write com.vmware.fusion fluxCapacitor -bool YES