Hi, thanks for the immediate reply. > or > * or get kvm-kmod-2.6.32 and compile for your current kernel I downloaded this and now it is installed. Doing dpkg --list kvm* shows the following: ||/ Name Version Description +++-=================================-=================================-================================================================================== pn kvm <none> (no description available) un kvm-data <none> (no description available) ii kvm-kmod 2.6.32-1 kvm-kmod-self-compiled pn kvm-source <none> (no description available) > and > * qemu-kvm versions from http://www.corpit.ru/debian/tls/kvm/ (package > qemu-kvm_0.11.0+dfsg-1tls_amd64.deb) ( ensure that the old kvm package is > gone - aptitude purge kvm ) I tried to install qemu-kvm but I am not sure what it does. After installing this when I run qemu (installed previously, it complains with the following message: qemu vdisk.img Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: No such file or directory Then I installed the qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1, but it complains during ./configure that: Error: libpci check failed Disable KVM Device Assignment capability. But it seems to build fine. I then installed it using: sudo checkinstall and this installs the qemu in /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64. When I run this I get the following error: /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 vdisk.img exception 13 (0) rax 0000000000000010 rbx 0000000000008c00 rcx 0000000000006e56 rdx 00000000000c8c00 rsi 00000000f2010000 rdi 00000000000c0000 rsp 0000000000006e4c rbp 00000000000fd3e4 r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 rip 00000000000fc45a rflags 00033002 cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) tr 0000 (feffd000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gdt fcb90/37 idt fdc00/0 cr0 10 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Aborted Please suggest that what am I doing wrong. Thanks again, Divick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html