Virtualbox no longer works

johnjark

Hi,
After latest update I can no longer run VMs in Virtualbox.

Many thanks,
JJ

Error log -

GIM: HyperV: Resetting MMIO2 regions and MSRs
00:00:00.977045 vmmR3LogFlusher: Terminating (VERR_OBJECT_DESTROYED)

00:00:01.134118 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8} aComponent={ConsoleWrap} aText={The VBoxGuestPropSvc service call failed with the error VERR_INVALID_STATE}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-79

00:00:01.252242 VMSetError: /buildsys/apps/virtualbox-qt6/src/VirtualBox-7.1.4/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VM.cpp(341) int VMR3Create(uint32_t, PCVMM2USERMETHODS, uint64_t, PFNVMATERROR, void*, PFNCFGMCONSTRUCTOR, void*, VM**, UVM**); rc=VERR_SVM_IN_USE

00:00:01.252247 VMSetError: VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot

00:00:01.252890 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8} aComponent={ConsoleWrap} aText={VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_SVM_IN_USE)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-4054

00:00:01.252969 Console: Machine state changed to 'PoweredOff'
00:00:01.254943 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_SVM_IN_USE, hrc=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005))
00:00:01.270645 GUI: Aborting startup due to power up progress issue detected...

demm

This is only an issue with the linux-next kernel (and a known issue, a few fixes have been tried, both in the virtuallbox module & linux-next kernel example). 6 1.2 now loads the KVM modules, which conflicts with virtualbox.

So the workaround for now is either boot in the regular linux kernel (6.11 series) to use virtualbox, or unload all kvm modules:

lsmod | grep kvm

and sudo rmmod all kvm modules the above listed.