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Monday, 9 February 2026

VirtualBox VT-x is being used by another hypervisor error on Ubuntu 24.04.3

So the error basically looks like this;
VT-x is being used by another hypervisor (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).

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).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8}
The solution is to check the running KVM and shutting them down
lsmod | grep kvm
lsof | grep kvm
Then remove them, the usual suspects are
kvm_intel
and
kvm
sudo rmmod kvm_intel
sudo rmmod kvm

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