KVM installation in Ubuntu

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user3855944 picture user3855944 · Aug 4, 2015 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

I have tried installing KVM according to the guidelines provided on Ubuntu wiki but when I open Virtual Machine Manager it says that,

'Warning: KVM is not available. This may mean the KVM package is not installed, or the KVM kernel modules are not loaded. Your virtual machines may perform poorly.'

I have hardware virtulization enabled in my BIOS settings. Here, is a output of sudo /usr/sbin/kvm-ok:

INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_intel modprobe: FATAL: Module msr not found.

Also, output of sudo modprobe kvm_intel is as follows:

modprobe: FATAL: Module kvm_intel not found.

Answer

Carlo Lobrano picture Carlo Lobrano · Aug 6, 2015

It does look like the installation failed.

What's the output of this command?

lsmod | grep kvm

I expect no output. If that so, is it this the guide you followed? What was the output of 

sudo apt-get install kvm qemu

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