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mooonli
mooonli

Reputation: 2393

Virtualbox on OSX not showing VT-x/AMD-V option

I just set up my new Macbook Pro 15" (2017). During the installation and configuration of my Virtualbox VM's I realised, that the "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" option which can be found under Virtual Machine Settings - System - Acceleration is not available on my new Macbook Pro while it was on my previous one (Macbook Pro 15" 2014). Do you have any ideas what might be the reason for that? Both of the Macbooks are running under macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and they both have the latest version of VirtualBox installed. Since I am doing a lot of work in VM's I would be really happy to be able to enable this option.

Would appreciate it a lot if someone could help me.

Regards

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10276

Answers (2)

maxkuku
maxkuku

Reputation: 196

In Terminal list all VMs with

vboxmanage list vms

Find yours and then

vboxmanage modifyvm "Your_name_2004" --nested-hw-virt on

Upvotes: 1

Devesh Chanchlani
Devesh Chanchlani

Reputation: 887

It seems the option does not show up in VirtualBox any more. However, the "Acceleration" details do show up on the VirtualBox dashboard screen on the right, under the System details.

In my case (on Mac), when "default" paravirtualization-interface option is selected (under Acceleration tab), the VB dashboard shows VT-x to be enabled.

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Upvotes: 5

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