The Skull Cinema

What follows is how I solved the following error message from VirtualBox. Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE). AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by the host OS) (VERR_SVM_DISABLED). Result Code: E_FAIL (0X80004005) Component: ConsoleWrap Interface: IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8} VERR_SVM_DISABLED error message from VirtualBox What am I messing around with hypervisors and virtual machines for? And for that matter, what's a virtual machine anyway? Answers to these questions are here ; but back to the matter at hand. Fortunately the error message is actually quite helpful and gives us the answer to solving the problem. SVM is disabled in the BIOS. SVM is the TLA for Secure Virtual Machine (see this article for more information) and the BIOS on motherboards is normally shipped with this option disabled, because the majority of users never need to use it and having it e...

Prior to the trip to buy groceries each week, the tedious chore of wandering round the house checking how much of all the consumables that a household requires is actually present must be completed. Everywhere there is a stash; upstairs, downstairs, all the cupboards, the fridge, the freezer, etc ., etc . I could try to do it from memory, but who has the available headspace to remember how many tins of beans you have at any particular moment and, even if you do try to use this method, how many extra tins of corned beef or jars of mustard is it reasonable to have to buy just to save yourself from the weekly traipse around the house doing a stock-check? What I need is a Bean Counter. I want to be able to scan in the barcode on a tin of beans when I buy it and when I use it scan it out again and have the stock level reflect that fact. Then, on shopping day, I can just look at the stock levels from my desk. Or even better it could just tell me when I need to buy more beans again. Of cou...