title: How to enable KVM on a Mac for Qemu?
body: <p>I'm virtualizing a machine for the first time on my Mac with Qemu (for an university assignment, so it's not possible to change the tool).<br>
  We have to compare some measurements between a VM running on KVM and one without KVM.<br>
  I tried to start the KVM machine by calling <code>qemu-system-x86_64 my.qcow2 -enable-kvm</code> but I'm getting this error:<br>
  <code>qemu-system-x86_64: -machine accel=kvm: No accelerator found</code></p>
  
  <p>I checked <code>sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features</code> and that`s my output:  </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR
    PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE
    SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 FMA CX16 TPR PDCM
    SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC MOVBE POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE SEGLIM64
    TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>As there is VMX listed I assume my Macbook supports KVM and by default it should be enabled as far as I understood.<br>
  So why am I getting this error and does anybody have a solution to that?<br>
  Btw. my Macbook Pro is a Retina, 13' Mid 2014 version running 10.14.1 (18B75).  </p>