KVM Not available.

[ghost]

Linux/VM noob here. I'm trying to follow this guide to pass through my AMD card. However, after running usermod -aG kvm,input,libvirt username VM Manager tells me that KVM Isn't available. It was working just fine before i started messing around with this guide. I'm not %100 sure what the cause is.

I would post a log or something but i have no idea what to do in this situation, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[QaidVoid]

That's odd. Which GPU driver have you installed? Also, could you please check if the kvm module is loaded using lsmod | grep kvm.

Also, you can probably check dmesg or journalctl -f to see if any related error message is logged..

[ghost]

My GPU is an AMD R7 240, with oland radeon drivers.

lsmod | grep kvm outputs this:

kvm                  1105920  0
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm

No idea if that's good or bad.

dmesg reports that KVM is disabled by my bios, which would make sense, since i recently performed a bios update, in preparation for this guide. I do have SR-IOV enabled in my bios, which i assume is a good thing. I went through all my bios settings but didn't find anything. AMD CPU btw.

Here's more system info: https://pastebin.com/eDigpRVw Edit: Posted old system info by mistake, link is now correct.

[QaidVoid]

Your system info shows that your CPU is missing the flag required for KVM.. The CPU should either have vmx or svm flag present for KVM..

SR-IOV is different than that what is required for KVM.. There should be something else related to virtualization in your BIOS settings.. It might be named VT-d, VT-x or AMD-SVM. Check again and make sure if any of them is present and enable it...

[ghost]

As it turns out, i had SVM disabled, my bad lol. I should really look more closely next time.

Looks like my vm is working fine now. Thank you for your help!