Virtualisation

VirtualBox

Architecture : AMD Ryzen

Platform : Microsoft Windows 10 ( status = grey )

Virtualbox appears to have issues with Windows 10

Notable Issues

• 64 bit operating system options are not available under settings for any VM, only 32 bit is listed

Notable configuration issue

• Despite ADM SVM enabled in the BIOS there is an error reporting such is not enabled or available

  AMD-V is not available (VERR_SVM_NO_SVM).

  Resultcode: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

  Component: ConsoleWrap

  Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

Potential Causes

• Possible interplay with Hyper-V (disable all hyper-v services by setting them to manual or disable)
• Possible interplay with Microsoft Windows Defender or other Anti Virus
• One one forums a bios version is reported to actually disable svm when enabled is selected, sigh
• Unclear real root causes

A simple procedure ( which worked once for now )

Resource: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

1. Download the VirtualBox executable of choice and open a cmd shell on the download location

2. Extract the executable from cmd ( Virtualbox....exe -extract)

3. cd %HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\Temp\VirtualBox

   make sure you are at the right drive where %HOMEPATH% is located

   cd to the appropriate drive letter if you do not see the virtualbox installers (x86 and amd64 files)

You now see a .cab file, a .exe file, a .msi file

Regarding the .msi file various options are possible
use msiexec to execute the .msi file

The installation option will fresh install or offer to repair or remove

msiexec /i VirtualBox-.....-MultiArch_amd64.msi

The option to reinstall also has various options

msiexec /fa VirtualBox-.....-MultiArch_amd64.msi   

will perform a full reinstall, a reboot is suggested

msiexec /fu VirtualBox-.....-MultiArch_amd64.msi

will repair the registry settings, a reboot is suggested

In case you like to investigate

msiexec /?
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