When I try to Install the whonix CLI and at the end of the installation It asks If I want to start whonix directly and then i say YES and then this error always pop up–
I have checked my BIOS that intel virtualisation technology Is ofc enabled, I have an
Intel Core i7-4790K It says It supports vt-x on Intels website any solution on what the problem could be?
Thanks!
VBoxManage: error: VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole
Waiting for VM “Whonix-Gateway-Xfce” to power on…
whonix-xfce-installer-cli: [ERROR]: Virtual Machine Startup Result: FAIL
- This is likely happening due to the warnings that have been reported above.
- The installer succeeded with download and import, but
- failed to start the virtual machines (VMs).
- The root cause for this issue is likely not the installer.
- This issue would likely also happen if the user tried to manually start the VMs.
- Resolving these issues (as per documentation hyperlinks above) would likely resolve this issue.
zsh: exit 106 whonix-xfce-installer-cli
Older systems (around the age of your system) oftentimes have virtualization disabled in the BIOS. Check in your BIOS settings for something like “VT-x” or “Virtualization Technology”. If it’s off, switch it on and that should fix the issue.
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Thats already on and the first thing I checked ofc, This issue happens when I try to run whonix inside kali with virtualbox also, But yeah I guess my machine Is too old eitherway! been struggling with this issue for months.
What’s your host OS? If you’re using Windows 10 or 11, you might have Hyper-V conflicting with VirtualBox. If you’re using Linux, check if /dev/kvm exists (if it does, that’s a good sign, if it doesn’t, then your machine may have buggy or weird hardware/firmware).
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Linux mint host os
sudo modprobe kvm_intel nested=1
sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf
lscpu | grep Virtualization
Virtualization: VT-x
kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 8.2.2 (Debian 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.8)
Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
- egrep -c ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo
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localhost kernel: Linux version 6.1.0-37-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc-12 (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debia>
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-37-amd64 root=UUID=8a7a842e-a3c9-4056-9585-d18963286964 ro mitigations=auto,nosmt nosmt=force spectre_v2=on spectre_bhi=on spec_stor>
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000afeeffff] usable
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000afef0000-0x00000000afefffff] ACPI data
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec00fff] reserved
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffc0000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: SMT: Force disabled
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: SMBIOS 2.5 present.
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: DMI: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: Hypervisor detected: KVM
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: kvm-clock: Using msrs 4b564d01 and 4b564d00
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: kvm-clock: using sched offset of 12745274311 cycles
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: clocksource: kvm-clock: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1cd42e4dffb, max_idle_ns: 881590591483 ns
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: tsc: Detected 3990.756 MHz processor
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: last_pfn = 0xafef0 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: Disabled
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: x86/PAT: MTRRs disabled, skipping PAT initialization too.
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: CPU MTRRs all blank - virtualized system.
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB WT UC- UC WB WT UC- UC
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x0009fff0-0x0009ffff]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: [mem 0x3079d000-0x343c5fff]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Early table checksum verification disabled
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP 0x00000000000E0000 000024 (v02 VBOX )
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: XSDT 0x00000000AFEF0030 00003C (v01 VBOX VBOXXSDT 00000001 ASL 00000061)
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACP 0x00000000AFEF00F0 0000F4 (v04 VBOX VBOXFACP 00000001 ASL 00000061)
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT 0x00000000AFEF0620 002353 (v02 VBOX VBOXBIOS 00000002 INTL 20230628)
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACS 0x00000000AFEF0200 000040
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACS 0x00000000AFEF0200 000040
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: APIC 0x00000000AFEF0240 000064 (v02 VBOX VBOXAPIC 00000001 ASL 00000061)
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000AFEF02B0 00036C (v01 VBOX VBOXCPUT 00000002 INTL 20230628)
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Reserving FACP table memory at [mem 0xafef00f0-0xafef01e3]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Reserving DSDT table memory at [mem 0xafef0620-0xafef2972]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0xafef0200-0xafef023f]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0xafef0200-0xafef023f]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Reserving APIC table memory at [mem 0xafef0240-0xafef02a3]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0xafef02b0-0xafef061b]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: No NUMA configuration found
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000afeeffff]
Aug 03 18:16:41 localhost kernel: NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0xafec5000-0xafeeffff]
I must say Im quite new to linux I switched from windows 10 just couple of weeks ago I have been messing around with whonix vms in virtualbox and VMware for like over a year tho…
This looks like you’re running Linux Mint in a VM, and then you’re trying to run Whonix in a nested VM? If so, virtualization - Virtualbox enable nested vtx/amd-v greyed out - Stack Overflow should help. Note that Whonix will probably perform very slowly in this scenario, but it has a chance of at least working.
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If so, please note and follow instructions here:
Note:
Thank you sir!
VBoxManage modifyvm command worked! and now the vt-x Is enabled and not greyed out in virtualbox! :))
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