diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index 951e8214e0..d6002b631e 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -2556,8 +2556,7 @@ static int kvm_init(MachineState *ms)
 {
     MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(ms);
     static const char upgrade_note[] =
-        "Please upgrade to at least kernel 2.6.29 or recent kvm-kmod\n"
-        "(see http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm).\n";
+        "Please upgrade to at least kernel 4.5.\n";
     const struct {
         const char *name;
         int num;