------- Comment From [email protected] 2015-02-11 15:23 EDT-------
On x86, KVM modules are loaded by checking if some processor features are 
available.

For instance, in my x86_64 laptop:

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[root@lagarcia ~]# modinfo kvm-intel
filename:       
/lib/modules/3.18.5-201.fc21.x86_64/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko.xz
license:        GPL
author:         Qumranet
alias:          cpu:type:x86,ven*fam*mod*:feature:*0085*
depends:        kvm
<...>

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The "alias:          cpu:type:x86,ven*fam*mod*:feature:*0085*" will
instruct the kernel to load this module whenever this feature is
available. The same is not true on other platforms.

On Power, you need to explicitly load the modules. This is usually done
by adding scripts wherever appropriate in the system to automatically
load modules during system start up. In the case of KVM modules, these
scripts are usually included in the QEMU package. From what I could
grasp (sorry if I am mistaken as this is the first time I am looking at
an Ubuntu source package), this is already done in Ubuntu through the
script qemu-system-ppc.qemu-kvm.upstart.

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  must manually load kvm_hv or kvm_pr before using kvm on ppc64

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