KVM not avaible even though CPU and MB support is present

[Ranbir]

I'm trying to create a VM on my Fedora 36 desktop with virt-manager and
I'm seeing this error:

"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."

Ok, so I figured I must have left VT-d disabled in the BIOS. I
rebooted, checked the setting and found it enabled. Strange.
I booted back into Fedora and looked for the "vmx" flag for my
i9-10900X and sure enough found it present.

I have the a lot of qemu related packages installed. I also have the
necessary kvm RPMS installed:


libvirt-daemon-kvm-8.1.0-2.fc36.x86_64
qemu-kvm-6.2.0-16.fc36.x86_64
qemu-kvm-core-6.2.0-16.fc36.x86_64

When I try to manually insert the kvm_intel module, I get this error:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_intel': Operation not supported

I've been using KVM for a very long time and recently successfully
migrated to modular libvirt on my kvm host. I would like to think that
I know a little bit about getting KVM running. :/

I'm currently running kernel version 6.0.9-200. Is it broken? Is anyone
else having problems with kvm on Intel CPUS in Fedora 36? Is there
something I'm doing incorrectly?

Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
Ranbir

[Samuel Sieb]

On 11/26/22 18:28, Ranbir wrote:
>  When I try to manually insert the kvm_intel module, I get this
> error:
>  
>  modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_intel': Operation not supported 
Check the journal, it will probably have more details.

[Ranbir]

On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 21:57 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>  Check the journal, it will probably have more details. 
I ended up updating the BIOS and now the kvm_intel module loads.

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Ranbir