Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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g0wda
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Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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Good Afternoon Team,

Need some advice if possible, my tower is a Ryzen 7 on Motherboard Gigabyte B450M DS3H
The Os I am using is alma Linux, is there any problem you can see running VirtualBox on the tower please.

Thank you from Alan
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Re: Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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Are you facing any problems?
g0wda
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Re: Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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Good Evening,

Thank you on replying to my message, I enabled virtualization in the bios, reloaded alma Linux just in case, then check on line to see if anyone
was doing what I wanted.. stared to follow instructions and came across this instruction. lscpu | grep Virtualization, which should give the result
Virtualization: VT-x , and Virtualization type: full

when running the code on alma I get, Virtualization AMD-V , I am using a Ryzen 7 in the gigabyte motherboard

I hope I have explained the problem enough...

Thanks from Alan
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Re: Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure there is a problem.

VT-x is an Intel designation for "hardware virtualization".

On an AMD processor, hardware virtualization will be called AMD-V.

Can you start a VM and install an OS in it?
g0wda
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Re: Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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Hi Scott,

No I stopped at that point, did a search could not find anything, so I thought I would come on here and ask..

So I will finish of the install and hope it all works...

Thanks and all the best from Alan
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Re: Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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If the VM runs and an OS installs, then AMD-V is working. Virtualbox won't run without hardware virtualization.
g0wda
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Re: Running Virtual Box on Alma Linux (GigaByte B450M DS3H)

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Hi Scott,

Thank you for the advice, all is working now

all the best from Alan
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