Issues running virtual box on on multiple instances

Question

We were trying to setup Virtual Box on multiple instances of AWS but keep getting errors.

We have tried this on multiple instances such as C6I, M6I, M5, and currently C5AD.8XLarge but we keep getting the same errors. We expected bare metal to work but it didn’t.

Once we get Virtual Box installed, we run into this error while trying to install the Linux distros. If anyone can please help and/or point us in the right direction that would be much appreciated.

ERROR:
The native API dll was not found (C:\Windows\system32\WinHvPlatform.dll) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE).
AMD-V is not available (VERR_SVM_NO_SVM).

Result Code:
E_FAIL (0X80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8}

Answer

Unless you have a bare metal instance I do not believe you are able to run nested virtualisation.

Your question is imposing that your are trying to run a virtual machine inside another virtual machine.

Ec2’s do not expose the CPU features for virtualisation because the ec2 is already virtual.

Virtual box requires hyper v and this error I believe is because it’s not available due to nested virtualisation.

Try one of these. m5.metal, m5d.metal, r5.metal, r5d.metal, and z1d.metal.

Answer

Hi, did you try a different path: export your VirtualBox image as an .OVA file and then use EC2 VM import to load it onto EC2-
See https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/

Export as OVA: https://www.maketecheasier.com/import-export-ova-files-in-virtualbox/

The full import process is described here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html

Issues running virtual box on on multiple instances

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