While moving my Kali Linux VM from my old Win7 machine to my new Win10 machine, I faced this strange issue, while starting the VM: After banging my head for along, I figured out that by default in new laptops, the virtualization is disabled on Intel processors and for enabling it we need to enter the BIOS setup. We need to turn it on by: Entering the BIOS is a bit different inWin 10 machines: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/access-bios-windows-10 Once that's enabled the VM bootup will be smooth!