How to Repair ‘VT-X/AMD-V Hardware Acceleration is Not Available on Your System’ on Windows 10

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If you want to test another operating system on your current computer, virtualization is what you need. There is a lot of virtualization-based software on the market. VirtualBox by Oracle is one such virtualization software available for free.

You can install it on the host operating system, create a new virtual machine, and then install the guest operating system. However, sometimes you get an error message saying that VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. In this article, we’ll look at how to fix this error.

What causes the message “VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available in your system” error?

VT-x/AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS: Another reason for this error message may be that the virtualization technology used by your processor is disabled in the BIOS.

VT-x/AMD-V has been disabled by Hyper-V: Hyper-V is Microsoft’s proprietary virtualization technology. In recent versions of Windows, Hyper-V is automatically enabled and VT-x/AMD-V is disabled to avoid conflicts. However, Hyper-V does not work well with virtual machines.

Your processor does not support VT-x/AMD-V: Some older processors do not support Intel VT-x or AMD-V. If your computer does not support virtualization technology, you will not be able to bypass or fix the error message.

How to resolve the ‘VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration not available on your system’ error message?

Perform an SFC scan

1. Open the extended command line again, type the command sfc /scannow and press Enter.
2. This tool will then scan and restore corrupted system files.
3. This process may take some time; make sure it is complete.

Enable VT-x/AMD-V in the BIOS

1. Restart the computer and press Delete or F2 when the home screen appears to access the BIOS.
2. Go to the Advanced tab, select the Intel Virtualization Technology option and change it to Enabled using the arrow keys.
3. Press F10 to save your changes and exit BIOS. Your computer will restart after that.

Disabling Hyper-V

1. Press Win + R to open the Run dialog box, type OptionalFeatures.exe and press Enter.
2. In the Windows Features window, scroll down to find the Hyper-V option. If enabled, uncheck the box for Hyper-V, including its suboptions.
3. Click OK to save your changes.
4. Type cmd in the search box, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator.
5. At the extended command prompt, type the following command and press Enter.
   bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
6. Open the Local Group Policy Editor window by running the gpedit.MSC command, and then find the following path in the left navigation pane:
   Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Device Guard.
7. Double-click the Enable virtualization-based security option and set it to Disabled, then click OK to save your changes.

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