RHEL6 KVM Error when trying to load Kernel Module kvm_intel

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I've installed KVM 0.9.0 on RHEL6, however, when I try to add kvm_intel module on the fly, I get the following:

[root@ApacheFTP ~]# modprobe kvm ; modprobe kvm_intel
FATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel (/lib/modules/2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko): Operation not supported
[root@ApacheFTP ~]# 

Here is a listing of the cpu for this VM:


[root@ApacheFTP ~]# lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 58 Stepping: 9 CPU MHz: 2394.574 BogoMIPS: 4789.14 Hypervisor vendor: KVM Virtualization type: full L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 6144K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1 [root@ApacheFTP ~]#

For the hypervisor, I'm using VirtualBox 5.0 and I have hardware virtualization checked for Enable VT-x/AMD-V, so I'm not sure why isn't not loading this module.

I am able to run KVM with no issue at this time.

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I think I may have answered my own question doing some research online.

Since I'm running this VM and trying to run KVM on it, it seems that it doesn't have this ability...I will have to read up on this.

thanks

You can use nested virtualization with just KVM, enable the nested option on the kvm-intel module in RHEL7 or Fedora.

Performance will not be good, and I don't believe this is supported for production use, but to setup a basic test/demo environment it does work.

When VirtualBox is added to the mix, I'm not sure how it interacts sorry.

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