Prerequisites for using VMs through Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager

If you need to utilize Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager, on your Windows Operating system, there are certain prerequisites that you will need to confirm. If these are not as per the below output, then your Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager might fail to start.

Open Windows PowerShell prompt and type the below 2 commands & verify that their output should be as below.

Windows PowerShell

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(base) PS C:\Users\rupakuma> Wmic computersystem get hypervisorpresent

HypervisorPresent

FALSE

(base) PS C:\Users\rupakuma> wmic cpu get virtualizationfirmwareenabled

VirtualizationFirmwareEnabled

TRUE

If not, you will need to enable virtualization through BIOS & disable Hyper-V in your Windows operating system.