Subject: bug#27636: /dev/kvm went missing on i686, Linux 4.12

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:29:18 -0400

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Since the update to Linux 4.12 my i686 machine no longer has /dev/kvm.
> I ran “modprobe kvm” successfully, and “lsmod” shows “kvm”, but the
> device node does not exist.
>
> Running “modprobe kvm-intel” prints:
>
>     modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_intel': Input/output error

Does the kernel message buffer mention anything about "kvm" or "KVM"?

  dmesg | grep -i kvm

      Mark