[SOLVED]Can't enable KVM

dirtboxes · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2021 Posts: 39

I look through virtualization and I can't find KVM.

Any help appreciated.

kukibl · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 237

Where did you look? In kernel config? BIOS?

dirtboxes · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2021 Posts: 39

kukibl · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 237

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU#Kernel

Also, where did you start? Old config or running system kernel config?

dirtboxes · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2021 Posts: 39

kukibl · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 237

Can you give us more info?

Output of "emerge --info", which kernel version you are trying to configure&compile. Post as well .config to pastebin (or similar service).

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

You probably want to search menuconfig for KVM_INTEL or KVM_AMD, depending on your host CPU. That should take you to the area where you can enable it. This is defined in arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig, and appears under the Virtualization parent node. The depend statements look fairly simple, and you probably already satisfy all of them.