Question What is up with Ryzen Master and virtualization?

[Thunder 57]

This has been going on forever it seems. You cannot use Ryzen Master if you have AMD-V enabled. I do not see why the two cannot be compatible. I don't use either very much but it seems stupid to have to go change a BIOS option to use one. Does anyone know why or what is going on here?

 

[lightmanek]

This has been going on forever it seems. You cannot use Ryzen Master if you have AMD-V enabled. I do not see why the two cannot be compatible. I don't use either very much but it seems stupid to have to go change a BIOS option to use one. Does anyone know why or what is going on here?

It works for me.
Granted, RM is a diva and in one instance I had to do full bios reset before it would open ...

 

[Thunder 57]

It works for me.
Granted, RM is a diva and in one instance I had to do full bios reset before it would open ...

And you can run a virtual machine while being able to use Ryzen Master? Maybe it just a thing with Zen(+) CPU's if that is the case. I thought @Markfw had the same problem though.

 

[moinmoin]

It's not virtualization altogether that needs to be turned off, but just "Virtualization Based Security (VBS)". It should be possible to disable just the latter, it's just the usual typical unintuitive Windows mess to do so, see:

How do I disable Virtualization based Security in order to use the Ryzen Master software? - Microsoft Q&A

When I open Ryzen master I'm presented with this opaque error message: AMD Ryzen Master Ryzen Master can only run with Virtualization Based Security (VBS) disabled in the Windows operating system. Please disable VBS and re-start Ryzen…

learn.microsoft.com

 

[Thunder 57]

It's not virtualization altogether that needs to be turned off, but just "Virtualization Based Security (VBS)". It should be possible to disable just the latter, it's just the usual typical unintuitive Windows mess to do so, see:

How do I disable Virtualization based Security in order to use the Ryzen Master software? - Microsoft Q&A

When I open Ryzen master I'm presented with this opaque error message: AMD Ryzen Master Ryzen Master can only run with Virtualization Based Security (VBS) disabled in the Windows operating system. Please disable VBS and re-start Ryzen…

learn.microsoft.com

I will try that the next time I reboot. Looks like the answer.

 

[lightmanek]

And you can run a virtual machine while being able to use Ryzen Master? Maybe it just a thing with Zen(+) CPU's if that is the case. I thought @Markfw had the same problem though.

Yes, I run VMware Linux and Windows XP systems on a regular basis and can change my Ryzen's parameters on the fly.

 

[Thunder 57]

It's not virtualization altogether that needs to be turned off, but just "Virtualization Based Security (VBS)". It should be possible to disable just the latter, it's just the usual typical unintuitive Windows mess to do so, see:

How do I disable Virtualization based Security in order to use the Ryzen Master software? - Microsoft Q&A

When I open Ryzen master I'm presented with this opaque error message: AMD Ryzen Master Ryzen Master can only run with Virtualization Based Security (VBS) disabled in the Windows operating system. Please disable VBS and re-start Ryzen…

learn.microsoft.com

Sorry to be a bother, but I am still having trouble. VBS is disabled in Group Policy. I'd rather not mess with much else until I know what I should be doing. I don not want to go disabling components unless I feel comfortable. It sounds like VBS alone should have done the trick. It was already disabled when I looked for it in GPEdit.

 

[moinmoin]

As I mainly use Linux somebody with more Windows experience will have to chime in.

This appears to be an up-to-date screenshot heavy guide:

4 Methods Enable Or Disable Virtualization Based Security VBS On Windows 11 HTMD Blog

Learn how to Enable or Disable Virtualization Based Security (VBS) on Windows 11. The implementation of VBS uses hardware virtualization features to create

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