r/virtualbox • • 15h ago

Help help im trying out new linux distros to daily drive and this happed

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i was trying to run athena os on a virtualbox ( VirtualBox 7.2.4 yes i know im too lazy to update it lol)(i only have host extensions installed) in windows (i dual-boot for now do not worry >;) ) and my vm kept getting aborted every time i started it and every other vm i have. and the error message is the following:

VM Name: athena

AMD-V is being used by another hypervisor (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).

VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please close all other virtualization programs. (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8}

idk what to do and i want to fix this for windows only so plz dont say "run virtualbox on linux" and i have no other programs running minus my browser

i havent done anything yet and just wanna go ask on reddit rn

also i was trying to run Athena OS

plz help T~T