Amd-v Is Not Enabled in Virtualbox on Amd Apu

I am running on a dual core AMD E450 CPU. When I tried to run a 64-bit OS that requires hardware virtualization using VirtualBox, it showed me an error message that "AMD-V is not enabled".

My AMD processor is supposed provide AMD-V support, but I can find no option for enabling AMD-V in BIOS.

How can I solve this problem? How can I enable AMD-V for my CPU?

Thanks in advance

lscpu :-

Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                2
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    2
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             AuthenticAMD
CPU family:            20
Model:                 2
Stepping:              0
CPU MHz:               1650.000
BogoMIPS:              3291.72
Virtualization:        AMD-V
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              512K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1

EDITED:-

Error message from VirtualBox:-

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine XXX.

AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS. (VERR_SVM_DISABLED).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb}
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3 Answers

First enable AMD-V in the BIOS. It depends on your BIOS, but it will look something like this (probably):

In VirtualBox click -> Settings -> System -> Acceleration and enable the checkboxes as shown below.

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I had run into the very same problem and after spending like 2hrs I finally solved this. I am on a 32bit sys and my Bios does not have this Vizualization Technology option.

The problem happened to be VirtualBox related, I did this:

VirtualBox > System > Processor > change the number of processors from 2 to 1

Worked for me.

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I have an ASUS TUF B450 mobo and it's under Advanced -> CPU -> SMV

I also had to disable SecureBoot.

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