kvm command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

kvm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kvm: command not found

Solutions to kvm: command not found

How To Fix kvm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kvm is provided by qemu-system-x86 package.

qemu-system-x86 is:

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports i386 and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.

This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following x86 hardware: i386 x86_64.

In system emulation mode QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual machines on a single server.

On x86 host hardware this package also enables KVM kernel virtual machine usage on systems which supports it.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-x86

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install qemu-system-x86.

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-x86

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install qemu-system-x86

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix kvm command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.