Virtual Box on a Gaming Laptop

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Windows and Oracle Virtualbox. KISS really is dead.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name LAPTOP-UTM4NHID
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model TUF Gaming FX705DU_TUF705DU
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2300 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. FX705DU.316, 2021-01-28
SMBIOS Version 3.2
Embedded Controller Version 16.00
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Product FX705DU
BaseBoard Version 1.0
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State Off
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.3636"
User Name LAPTOP-UTM4NHID\stepp
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.8 GB
Available Physical Memory 8.12 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6.63 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware No
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
 
It looks like you need to enable the CPU support for virtualization in the BIOS. I think most BIOSes default such support to off for some reason. As far as I have found, there is no reason not to enable it and leave it enabled.

EDIT: This video just released this morning, and while it's about Linux, the beginning part is about enabling this setting. YouTube link to ExplainingComputers video
 
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It looks like you need to enable the CPU support for virtualization in the BIOS. I think most BIOSes default such support to off for some reason. As far as I have found, there is no reason not to enable it and leave it enabled.

EDIT: This video just released this morning, and while it's about Linux, the beginning part is about enabling this setting. YouTube link to ExplainingComputers video
Yes. That worked. At least as far as running VirtualBox. The setting on this tufbook was "SRC".