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eyescream

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 49

qemu-kvm error

Hello!

I am trying to get KVM support working but without much success.
At first I ran into an error with permissions which I managed to solve by changing permissions according to this thread.

Now when I run this command

qemu-kvm -hda imgname -m 512 -cdrom /path/to/iso -boot d -vga std

I get this error

kvm_create_vm: Device or resource busy
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support

dmesg output

kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU0 failed

I have added my user to the group kvm and checked /etc/group afterwards, lsmod returns the required modules and I have made sure my CPU supports KVM.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

Last edited by eyescream (2010-06-07 19:11:02)

Ultraman

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Registered: 2009-12-24

Posts: 242

Re: qemu-kvm error

Do you have Virtualization enabled in your BIOS?
Virtualization features of the CPU are disabled in the default settings on most boards.

eyescream

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 49

Re: qemu-kvm error

Yes, I made sure of that as well.
Still no luck so far.