Hi, I am trying to install Windoze 10 on VirtualBox but I get stuck as it sends me an error message wanting me to turn on the AMD-V in the BIOS. However on these new machines (Laptop: ACER Aspire E5 523) they no longer have any option available to enable or disable it. (I have attached a picture of the error essage.)
According to the following output the it would appear that my hardware should support virtualization but I don't know what to do.
kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_amd
INFO: For more detailed results, you should run this as root
HINT: sudo /usr/sbin/kvm-ok

INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_amd
INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions
INFO: KVM (svm) is disabled by your BIOS
HINT: Enter your BIOS setup and enable Virtualization Technology (VT),
and then hard poweroff/poweron your system
KVM acceleration can NOT be used

I contacted ACER and they are not willing to help much since that is the way the BIOS is on these machines.
Does anyone know of a way to work around this so I can go ahead and install Win 10 on my Linux machine? Thank you in advance for any help I can receive.

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There are hints, like:
HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_amd
did you try that?

Acer post. http://community.acer.com/t5/Knowled...rt/ta-p/380175 for some ideas to look at. I assume you are correct about it being locked out.

Virtualbox has run in the past versions without VT support. I'd run qemu and try it. The problem is also that some versions of W10 will require the most advanced vm.

To make things worse, your processor and system is pitifully slow for running a vm even if you did get support.

Good to know about Acer though, I'll put them on the Naughty list

pan64:
I tried: sudo modprobe kvm_amd
The following is the result:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_amd': Operation not supported

Thank you for your help.

jefro:
I don't have Windows installed on my laptop, only Linux Mint. Therefore I cannot run apps like the one suggested by ACER.
From the research that I have done it appears that the reason for the error message is that it is being locked out.
I don't understand your suggestion about running qemu. Is that instead of VirtualBox?
Thank you for your help though.

Acer post. http://community.acer.com/t5/Knowled...rt/ta-p/380175 for some ideas to look at. I assume you are correct about it being locked out.

Virtualbox has run in the past versions without VT support. I'd run qemu and try it. The problem is also that some versions of W10 will require the most advanced vm.

To make things worse, your processor and system is pitifully slow for running a vm even if you did get support.
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mostlyharmless:

I am quite disappointed as the reason for getting a new laptop was to be able to run it on Linux and with VirtualBox be able to run Windows inside of it. I am not sure what to do now!

jefro:

To make things worse, your processor and system is pitifully slow for running a vm even if you did get support.

What you are saying that even if I were to enable vt the system cannot handle Windows 10 running on VirtualBox? What would you recommend?

Thanks again for your help.

Huh?

"my Linux machine" is the computer you sit down at.
Guests are what's installed in Virtualbox.

Install Windows10 where, again?

Thank you for your interest to help. I am trying to install Windoze 10 on VirtualBox. VirtualBox I have installed on Linux Mint. I am trying to use Linux mint as my host and Windows 10 as my guest. However, I get this error message as posted earlier and it won't allow me to get past that error. The error seems to be related to AMD-V being turned off.

Is there a specific reason that it has to be a Win 10 guest?
You would likely get more mileage from a Win 7 guest. It's what I personally use for the handful of Windows programs that I need (read haven't found a replacement for yet)
It has a lower overhead than Win 10 and will run pretty much anything Win 10 will

Might be easier to run Windows 10 on a windows to go usb then.

Is this machine an AMD or Intel? Intel is to cheap to include the ability to run 64bit VMs. So when it says to turn on AMD-V, it means you've got to get an AMD processor.

Edit: I just saw that you can get a Win 10 32bit ISO. That should work.

Edit again: Oops, looks like your machine is an AMD, however a 32bit ISO would probably still work.