VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode
Luckily, there is an easy fix for Linux users. All you have to do is run the following command with root privileges (the command has also been added to the Ubuntu TestDrive post, of course):
modprobe -r kvm_intel
Hopefully this will help some people. Using it, you can run both Ubuntu TestDrive (which uses QEMU) and VirtualBox without any issues.