kvm does not support KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY Please upgrade to at least kernel 2.6.29 or recent kvm-kmod (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm) We have a machine which is having QEMU+KVM on below configuration of linux uname -a Linux cairotrior 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 26 05:45:09 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga) Kernel \r on an \m But in another setup, we are trying on a different machine having RHEL 5.9 having higher kernel version but it still gives below error kvm does not support KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY Please upgrade to at least kernel 2.6.29 or recent kvm-kmod (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm). failed to initialize KVM: Invalid argument No accelerator found! I don’t know if the qemu version have compatibility issues with redhat 5.9 version – need someone to check if the qemu can run on redhat 5.9 64 bit or not ?