VirtualBox Error: vt-x is not available virtualbox

I was trying out the Hortonworks Virtual Machine for hadoop on my work notebook, and got this message on first start:

"vt-x is not available"

Solved this by deactivating Hyper-V on my windows. This is how you do it, if you don't know how:

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