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While installing Ubuntu 15.10 under Windows 10, 1511 in a laptop with AMD 64-bit processor got following error message.

AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by the host OS) (VERR_SVM_DISABLED)

How to proceed from there?

techraf
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J Daya de Silva
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'AMD-V' represents hardware support for Virtualisation when using an AMD CPU. There could be 3 possible reasons for the lack of AMD-V support:

  1. You have it turned off in the Virtual Machine settings (in VirtualBox this setting is under System --> Acceleration --> Hardware Virtualization). See screenshot below for a screen grab of the location...

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  1. The setting is turned off in your computer's BIOS. To rectify this you will need to access your BIOS settings and turn it on. Carefully :).

  2. If the above settings are not an issue and you are running a Windows host the problem can sometimes be interference from another hypervisor (like Microsoft’s Hyper-V) using AMD-V. Hyper-V can be inactivated by un-checking its box following this sequence:

     (Windows key + x) --> Control Panel --> Programs -->
 Turn Windows Features on or off --> Hyper-V

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andrew.46
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