Virtual Box install problem on FC10

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Jun 8 22:36:07 UTC 2009


> Ok, if I need to go back to square one (the 4th email of this chain)... I
> compiled the stuff and then I had
> 
> Failed to start the virtual machine Kids.
> 
> VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel
> extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).

What its trying to tell you in a wonderfully user intutitive manner is

"Another virtual machine is loaded and you can only have one hypervisor
 at a time using the CPU hardware assist"

Or in even plainer English "Hey you don't need virtualbox, the stuff
supplied with Fedora will just work"

> How do I compile my kernel without this KVM kernel extension and what is the
> side effects of doing so?

It ought to be sufficient to "rmmod kvm" I suspect, however firing up the
virtual machine manager and creating a new virtual machine via kvm should
also "just work"




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