Hi Allan,

You virtualbox version is too old, the current one is 4.2.18

Try download it from official site
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloadsor follow the guide here
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-with-yum-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

Cheers,
Bruce


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Allan Duncan <[email protected]>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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