How to fix "Your CPU is incompatible with virtualization technologies" error?

The article explains the situations in which the error occurs.

1. Genymotion Desktop in a virtual machine

Genymotion Desktop has been designed to run in a physical environment, not in a virtual machine.
Nested virtualization is not supported.
Genymotion Desktop will not work if run in a Windows, Linux or macOS VM.
For more details, refer to Can Genymotion Desktop run in a virtual machine?

2. Your CPU does not meet Genymotion hardware requirements

3. Hardware Virtualization (VT) is disabled

Hardware virtualization is the capability that allows a computer to run virtual machines.
For Intel CPUs, this feature is called VT-x.
For AMD CPUs, this feature is called SVM.
All modern CPUs support hardware virtualization, but this feature may be disabled by default.
Check that Intel VT-x, AMD-V and/or SVM is enabled in your computer BIOS/UEFI.
Please refer to your computer manufacturer user guide to find how to access the BIOS/UEFI.
If you are using a computer with Windows pre-installed, you may not be able to access it at start-up.
In this case, follow the instructions from these articles: How to enable Virtualization (VT-x/SVM) on Windows 10? How to enable Virtualization (VT-x/SVM) on Windows 11?

4. Windows + Hyper-V

VirtualBox falls back to software virtualization when Hyper-V is active.
This causes multiple issues and compatibility problems with Genymotion Desktop, including this error.
At this time, we strongly recommend disabling Hyper-V when using Genymotion Desktop on Windows.
For detailed instructions, please refer to How to disable Hyper-V in Windows?

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