Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization Avast. Therefore while there is no interference with other virtual machines (depending which type of hypervisor they use) and VTx is enabled in the BIOS one should enable hardwareacceleration for Avast This setting is generally all about using a type I vs a type II hypervisor for that sandboxed container.
We provide a mini tutorial for disabling AvastHardwareAssistedVirtualization from the troubleshooting options on a Windows PC below Open Avast Antivirus Menu by clicking on the option in the Author Jayesh Nair.
Why can hardware assisted virtualization be a security issue
Open Avast Antivirus and click on Menu as shown below 2 From the drop down menu select Settings 3 Click on 'Troubleshooting' on the lefthand side 4 Uncheck the Enable hardwareassisted virtualization option Reboot your PC You should experience BlueStacks feeling a lot more zippy after this.
Avast BLOCKS HardwareAssisted Virtualization !!! Yes it does
Lo and behold both the Microsoft tool and PC Wizard now indicate that hardware assisted virtualization is enabled Again the ONLY change was unchecking the box “Enable hardwareassisted virtualization” in the settings section of avast.
How to configure settings in Avast Antivirus for BlueStacks 4
I did some searching about “virtualbox crash” and found a link about disabling “Enablehardwareassistedvirtualization” in Avast I did this and the problem went away The VM runs Ubuntu 64bit I have a 64bit AMD CPU (Opteron 4234) with hardwarevirtualization enabled I can only guess that Avast updated itself and turned on this hardware.