How to fix "Your CPU is incompatible with virtualization technologies" error?
The error described on this page usually happens in the following situations.
Genymotion Desktop is running in a virtual machine
Genymotion Desktop is 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.
Your CPU does not meet Genymotion hardware requirements
Genymotion needs hardware virtualization to run.
While almost any recent CPU supports this feature, some low-end CPUs don't.
Make sure that your CPU meets Genymotion Desktop requirements.
Hardware Virtualization (VT) is disabled
Hardware virtualization is the CPU feature that enables running virtual machines.
On Intel CPUs this feature is called VT-x.
On AMD CPUs this feature is called AMD-V.
On some CPUs this feature is called SVM.
All modern CPUs support hardware virtualization (VT-x/SVM), 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's user guide to find how to access the BIOS/UEFI.
If you use a computer with Windows pre-installed, you may not be able to access BIOS 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?
Windows + Hyper-V
Hyper-V interferes with Genymotion Desktop when using VirtualBox hypervisor.
Please make sure that Hyper-V is disabled when running Genymotion.
For detailed instructions, refer to Genymotion Desktop and Hyper-V.
Related articles
- How to enable hardware virtualization (VT-x/SVM) on Windows 11?
- How to enable hardware virtualization (VT-x/SVM) on Windows 10?
- What are Genymotion Desktop requirements?
- Genymotion Desktop and Hyper-V (Windows)
- Windows - Unable to start the Virtual Device