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Hi,

I have installed Kali Linux on a Windows 10 ASUS laptop, under the Virtual Box Hypervisor V6.1

On attempting to start Kali Linux, I get the following error:

VMMR0_DO_NEM_INIT_VM failed: VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API_2 (VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API_2).
VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).

I checked the BIOS, and the details are:

Bios Type: American Megatrends
Version: 214
VBIOS Version: 2119 I13UX3.011
CPU Type: Intel Core i7, 2677M CPU @ 1.80GHZ
Total Memory 4096

BIOS Settings applicable to Virtualisation

Intel Virtualization Technology [Enabled]
VT-D [Enabled]

Windows 10 Professional software settings:

Hyper-V
Hyper-V Management tools Enabled
Hyper-V Platform Enabled
Windows Hyper-V User platform enabled.

Windows updates have nothing outstanding, all updates are installed
Windows version is 1909

Unfortunately everything I have tried on this machine fails to allow Kali Linux to start, following the installation of a Virtual box, Kali Linux ova file which is kali-linux-2020.1-vbox-amd64.

The forums I have seen seem to suggest that Virtual Box supports VT-D, so I am not really sure why Virtual Box refuses to allow Kali Linux to start?

Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Hyper-V and VirtualBox don't play nice together, because Hyper-V grabs VT-x for its exclusive use. See the numerous threads in the Windows Hosts Forum including viewtopic.php?f=6&t=90853.

Hi multios,

Many thanks my friend, you were quite right as soon as I disabled Hyper-V in Windows and rebooted it started without issues, just got to find the latest password for Kali now

Best Regards,

Logged into Kali Linux successfully now, all good thanks once again for the assistance.

Big Thanks to multios.

Best Regards,
John.

Great. Glad you got it working.