Running x86 Android emulators requires kvm-intel...

Hi all,

I use Gitlab CI to build an Android app and automatically run tests on an Android Virtual Device (AVD). I would like to use the x86 version of this emulator instead of the ARM one. But an x86 AVD currently requires virtualization (VT) and KVM properly installed and loaded. All this runs in a Docker container on a DigitalOcean host.

‘lscpu’ shows VT is enabled for an Intel processor : Model name: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650L v3 @ 1.80GHz Virtualization: VT-x Hypervisor vendor: KVM Virtualization type: full

I therefore installed qemu-kvm and other related debian packages : export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --quiet update --yes apt-get --quiet install --yes qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst bridge-utils adduser ‘id -un’ libvirt

Then ‘virt-host-validate’ shows kvm-intel is not loaded : $ virt-host-validate QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/kvm : FAIL (Check that the ‘kvm-intel’ or ‘kvm-amd’ modules are loaded & the BIOS has enabled virtualization) QEMU: Checking for device /dev/vhost-net : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/net/tun : PASS LXC: Checking for Linux >= 2.6.26 : PASS ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

But, adding ‘modprobe kvm-intel’ fails : $ modprobe kvm-intel modprobe: ERROR: …/libkmod/libkmod.c:557 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file ‘/lib/modules/4.9.16-coreos-r1/modules.dep.bin’

And neither : $ depmod depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.9.16-coreos-r1: No such file or directory depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Nor : $ apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-‘uname -r’ Reading package lists… Building dependency tree… Reading state information… E: Unable to locate package linux-image-4.9.16-coreos-r1 E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-image-4.9.16-coreos-r1’

…does solve the problem. Any idea on how I can get kvm-intel loaded ?

Kind regards,

Laurent Le Moux