Quoting Mike Rushton (2016-04-05 16:47:29) > @mdroth > > I don't think PPC supports kvm the same way as x86: > > ubuntu@alpine01:~/kvm$ qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 256 -display none > -nographic -net nic -net > user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -machine pseries > -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive > file=seed.iso,if=virtio > Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied > failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied
-enable-kvm should work as expected on Power machines that support KVM. You seem to be running the command as a normal user. KVM generally requires a priviledged user.
