Hi Allan

Which version of Virtualbox is that?  Is it a recent one? 

Recent ones seem handle KVM presence better.  Older ones have trouble.

There is an option to disable hardware virtualisation extension:

Settings->System->Acceleration.

Do you have this on?  You dont need to disable KVM is you turn h/ware
extension off.  But this may not be what you want.

Daniel


On 08/10/13 11:01, Allan Duncan wrote:
> I have VirtualBox up and running fine with a 32-bit XP image, but when I 
> tried to configure a 64-bit linux machine VirtualBox barfs when you try 
> to start it with:
>
> Failed to open a session for the virtual machine linux_test.
> AMD-V is being used by another hypervisor. (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).
> VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please disable the KVM 
> kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).
>
> Searching for this found a match, but their solution of
>    rmmod kvm_amd kvm
> I had already tried with modprobe -r and it doesn't fix it anyway.
>
> I've tried with both 3.10.11 and 3.11.2 from fedora.
>
> I am unable to see any kvm that is already running, and - more to the 
> point - what causes kvm_amd to be loaded in the first place, since rmmod 
> happily unloads what must be an unused module.
>
> Playing around a bit, VirtualBox says that it turns on the AMD-V option 
> automatically if a 64-bit VM is selected.
>
> Btw, the .vdi was converted from the raw - a bootable usb stick with a 
> full blown fedora OS on it.  I can't see that having any relevance as 
> the error comes up before any boot process has happened.
>
> Suggestions please - I can do a kernel recompile, but what I have to 
> disable isn't clear.
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