Fw: [fedora-virt] Loading the KVM module (Fedora 19 on ppc64, POWER7)

[Gustavo Luiz Duarte]

On 09/23/2013 06:26 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> I'm trying to run libvirtd and KVM on a POWER7 machine. For some
> reason, virt-manager on a client says there is no KVM support. :-( The
> KVM module installed on the system cannot be loaded:
>
> 	# modprobe kvm
> 	modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm': Input/output error
>

You need special firmware to be able to run KVM on a POWER7 machine, you 
can check the platform field on /proc/cpuinfo. If you have pSeries it 
means it does NOT support KVM.

[]'s
Gustavo