[SOLVED] After qemu update: KVM does not work anymore

Question

Hi,
I used to use qemu-kvm, as in
qemu-kvm \
-net nic,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1 \
-drive file=/home/flash-vm/hdd0,if=virtio,cache=writethrough \
-vga std -vnc localhost:2 -usbdevice tablet \
-m 1024
However, now qemu-kvm has been removed. If I replace "qemu-kvm" with "qemu-system-x86_64" and try to run it with an extra argument  "-machine accel=kvm" or "-enable-kvm", what I get is
Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied
The kernel modules are there:
# lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel 124064 0
kvm 384721 1 kvm_intel
and the processor is
$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 37
Stepping: 5
CPU MHz: 1197.000
BogoMIPS: 5321.24
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 3072K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
I have added my user to the group kvm as well, as instructed by pacman. Any help would be much appreciated!
Last edited by ffcitatos (2013-03-07 06:47:06)

Answer 1

Interestingly, mine worked without being in the new group. However, I think that's because I hadn't logged out since the update, so the session didn't know that I had been removed from the group. Though I could be missing something.