KVM module not found by virtual machine manager

Question

On ubuntu when I launch the virtual machine manager I get a warning saying that KVM is not installed. I installed it from apt-get.

Ran modprobe and got:

$ modprobe -l | grep kvm
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd.ko

I ran modprobe -a on all the above and did not get any results... The my current user is part of the libvirtd group.

Running on Ubuntu 12.04

Answer 1

sudo insmod kvm-intel

or simply

sudo insmod kvm

does that work?

Also check this:

First check if your CPU supports hardware virtualization - if this is the case, the command

egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo

should display something, e.g. like this:

root@server1:~# egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv root@server1:~#

If nothing is displayed, then your processor doesn't support hardware virtualization, and you must stop here.