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I recently tried to boot up an old virtual machine in VirtualBox running Ubuntu 16.04, but was not able to run it. I tried making a fresh VM and realised that virtualbox was no longer offering 64 bit machines, which is what my disk image is.

I have tried the following:

Check that Intel Virtualization technology is enabled in bios

Check that Hyper-V isn't interfering with it according to this guide

As I couldn't find Hyper-V listed I tried this workaround, but failed to find an update that my system would install. Some more research led me to realize that Hyper-V is not available on Win10 home. As such Hyper-V shouldn't be the problem?

From here on I'm kind of stumped. Vbox used to work on this very machine maybe a year back, but at some point since then something seems to have broken it. I have do not have any other virtualization software installed which, together with some hints I found while googling, leads me to believe that the problem is with some Windows update.

Thank you for your help!

Juxter
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  • There are other features that can also disable virtualization techniques: Windows Sandbox, Windows Defender "Core Isolation" respectively “Memory Integrity". – Robert Oct 25 '19 at 12:41
  • Edit your question to specify the specific update you installed – Ramhound Oct 25 '19 at 13:36
  • Windows Sandbox can only be enabled on Windows 10 Professional. This [answer](https://superuser.com/questions/1474059/does-my-cpu-motherboard-support-vt-x/1474286#1474286) suggests the use of an Intel tool that will determine if VT-x is available or not. Provide an update to your question with the relevant information – Ramhound Oct 25 '19 at 13:43
  • Certain antivirus programs will also block hardware virtualization, Avast and Kaspersky will block by default. – essjae Oct 28 '19 at 19:11

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