Virtual Machine error while starting Windows XP: VT-x is disabled in the BIOS

Question

I've tried to start XP on my Ubuntu 16.04, but I don't know where to find the image.

This is one of the error that gives me:

VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).

Can some help me ?

For starters, if you want to run virtual machines you should enable VT-x in BIOS setup. — AlexP, Nov 27 '16 at 17:21
after this, the machine is "running" giving me a black screen says FATAL : No bootable medium found ! System halted... you know this ? — Rizio A., Nov 29 '16 at 14:30
Officially you are supposed to use your very own installation DVDs... or the images you downloaded from your MSDN subscription. Unofficially I cannot give advice, but you may try to use a search engine looking for ISO. Beware of viruses, trojans and other malware. Note that Windows XP is out of support. You would be better served by Windows 7 32-bit; it runs everything that Windows XP can run in a VM. — AlexP, Nov 29 '16 at 15:08
thanks for the help my ubunty is 64-bit..anyway i've tried to download an win xp iso image, and now it gives me this error: PXE-T02: Option negotiation failure (file nott found or inaccessible?) PXE-E3C: TFTP Error - Access Violation PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM FATAL : Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
I wish understand all this...... — Rizio A., Nov 29 '16 at 23:52
How come you don't know? What program do you use to start a virtual machine? — AlexP, Nov 30 '16 at 13:45
Right. In Virtual Box you define the components of your virtual machine. One of the components is a virtual DVD drive. Make that to use the ISO file containing the operating system to be installed. — AlexP, Dec 01 '16 at 03:33
ok it works...now one more question, how do i connect to the internet? it doesn't read my ethernet cable... — Rizio A., Dec 04 '16 at 13:06
Use your favourite search engine to look for install Windowx XP on VirtualBox networking. Apparently you need to specify a virtual network adapter which is supported by XP. — AlexP, Dec 04 '16 at 13:22
let's put it in this way, either if I connect with wifi, or ethernet cable, and attach to NAT , the browser just connects on msn.com and bing.com.....what can I do? — Rizio A., Dec 11 '16 at 08:29
Possible duplicate of How do I enable hardware virtualization technology (VT-x) for use in Virtualbox? — wjandrea, Nov 11 '18 at 20:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '18 at 19:53

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Here the answer for the sake of completeness from AlexP comments:

For starters, if you want to run virtual machines you should enable VT-x in BIOS setup.

answered Nov 11 '18 at 19:53

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Virtual Machine error while starting Windows XP: VT-x is disabled in the BIOS

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