sles12 Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied

SUSE Product Topics SLES Install-Boot
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Hello,
when booting SLES 12 i am receiving this error in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu:

char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied
2015-04-11 20:35:18.501+0000: shutting down

I thiink i may have a conflict with the kvm and the qemu packages installed. Could you help me? Thanks and BR/

bbsc17:~ # zypper search kvm
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…

S | Name | Summary | Type
–±-------------------------------±----------------------------------±-------i | kvm_server | KVM Host Server | patterni | kvm_tools | KVM Virtualization Host and tools | patterni | patterns-sles-kvm_server | KVM Host Server | package | patterns-sles-kvm_server-32bit | KVM Host Server | packagei | patterns-sles-kvm_tools | KVM Virtualization Host and tools | package | patterns-sles-kvm_tools-32bit | KVM Virtualization Host and tools | packagei | qemu-kvm | Kernel-based Virtual Machine | packagebbsc17:~ # zypper search qemu
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…

S | Name | Summary | Type
–±---------------------------±-----------------------------------±----------i | libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu | Qemu driver plugin for the libvi-> | package
i | libvirt-daemon-qemu | Server side daemon & driver requ-> | package
i | qemu | Universal CPU emulator | package
| qemu | Universal CPU emulator | srcpackagei | qemu-block-curl | Universal CPU emulator – cURL b-> | package
| qemu-guest-agent | Universal CPU emulator – Guest → | package
i | qemu-ipxe | PXE ROMs for QEMU NICs | package
i | qemu-kvm | Kernel-based Virtual Machine | package
| qemu-lang | Universal CPU emulator – Transl-> | package
i | qemu-seabios | X86 BIOS for QEMU | package
i | qemu-sgabios | Serial Graphics Adapter BIOS for-> | package
i | qemu-tools | Universal CPU emulator – Tools | package
i | qemu-vgabios | VGA BIOSes for QEMU | package
i | qemu-x86 | Universal CPU emulator – x86 | package

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Hi
I have the following installed on an AMD system;

i | libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu | Qemu driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon   | package
i | qemu                       | Universal CPU emulator                       | package
i | qemu-block-curl            | Universal CPU emulator -- cURL block support | package
i | qemu-block-rbd             | Universal CPU emulator -- cURL block support | package
i | qemu-ipxe                  | PXE ROMs for QEMU NICs                       | package
i | qemu-kvm                   | Kernel-based Virtual Machine                 | package
i | qemu-seabios               | X86 BIOS for QEMU                            | package
i | qemu-sgabios               | Serial Graphics Adapter BIOS for QEMU        | package
i | qemu-tools                 | Universal CPU emulator -- Tools              | package
i | qemu-vgabios               | VGA BIOSes for QEMU                          | package
i | qemu-x86                   | Universal CPU emulator -- x86                | package

I’m guessing virtualization is enabled in the BIOS, and the relevant
kernel module is loading?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.39-47-default
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