On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 12:37 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:06:33PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> >
> >
> > Your CPU need to have virtualization hardware support and if it has add -
> > enable-
> > kvm to the qemu-system-x86_64 command line.
> Is there an easy way to check for harware virtualization support?

The VT-x means Intel Virtualization support enabled in the BIOS.
The AMD-V means AMD Virtualization support enabled in the BIOS.

On Intel CPUs:

lscpu | grep Virt
Virtualization:        VT-x

lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel             123583  18
kvm                   301458  1 kvm_intel

On AMD CPUS:
AMD - V

lsmod | grep kvm
Modules to load: kvm-amd.ko, kvm.ko

You can also
cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep vmx on Intel
cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep svm on AMD
to see if virtualization is enabled in the BIOS


You might have to enable it in your BIOS. Try loading the kvm modules:
modprobe kvm