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Nokkaelaein wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:22 am Nice that you got it solved. It would be really swell if you described here what caused it and how you solved it, so that the info would be around and searchable, in the case someone else has a similar problem down the road

Stevo wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:44 am You would need to add the "ahs" section to the MX repo, using MX Repo Manager, and install virtualbox 7.0.22 from ahs to get one that will work with 6.12 kernels. The virtualbox installer in MXPI should work for that once ahs is enabled and the repositories updated. Usually "ahs" kernels, like the 6.7 you were running before, are happier with ahs drivers, but you were able to get by without them on 6.7. You could disable ahs after updating VBox.

CharlesV wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:02 pm try running this in a terminal on the host, then run Virtualbox

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sudo sysctl vm.drop_caches=3

CharlesV wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:56 pm Can you copy and paste the error here please?

The other thing I have on my machine is a LONG message about needing to recompile virtual box. I can get around this by doing the following in a terminal. (Annoying, but works )

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sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel

VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8}