VirtualBox virtual machine not starting because of missing VT-X support

Today I ran into an issue where VirtualBox wouldn’t start my virtual machines anymore because of missing VT-X support. Which was strange as my CPU (Intel i7) does support this and it did work just a day ago. After some searching and trying the latest version of VirtualBox it turns out that Microsoft’s Hyper-V (Hyper Visor) was preventing VirtualBox from using this technology. Disabling PAE/NX would let me boot the virtual machine again, but without the CPU acceleration.

To disable Hyper-V in Windows 8 do the following:

1. Press Windows key + X
2. Click Programs and Features
3. Click Turn Windows features on or off
4. Expand Hyper-V
5. Uncheck it
6. Click OK

Now reboot your machine and try booting a virtual machine using VT-X.