Comment 6 for bug 104297

This might help some people: The BIOS setup of HP compaq nw9940 laptop contains a rather
hidden setting called "virtualization technology", which is "deactivated" by default. On my machine
it found in "system configuration" -> "device configuration" as the last menu entry. When trying
to activate it, the BIOS issues a big fat warning in red letters on white background, that this
feature is not recommended by HP and so on. I've activated the feature and rebooted and
still got the same message. So I had to power down and restart, to get it really activated!

I've upgraded my BIOS recently to version F.1A, which was released by HP april this year,
so I assume this situation might effect lot of rather recent machines.

Nevertheless the kvm_intel module is still not loaded automatically during boot. I had
to issue the sudo modprobe kvm_intel to load it. The kvm package introduces a new
group kvm, which the default user is not automatically member of. The device
/dev/kvm belongs to this new group kvm. So the user account trying to run kvm
has probably be a member of the group kvm. I will try this next.