Trouble Opening Up Ubuntu

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MickeyDee51
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Trouble Opening Up Ubuntu

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I installed Ubuntu and after rebooting my computer, I tried to "Start" the application for the first time and got the below message.
Can anyone please help?

Thank you, :(
MickeyDee51

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Ubuntu.

Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE).

VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}
scottgus1
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Re: Trouble Opening Up Ubuntu

Post by scottgus1 »

Either your computer's "virtualization technology" (VT-x / AMD-V / SVM) is not on in the BIOS or Hyper-V is active. Go through everything in:

I have a 64bit host, but can't install 64bit guests
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