When running Linux inside a virtual machine you may see the following (Kernel v4.4.169):
intel_rapl: no valid rapl domains found in package 0
To resolve the issue we can simply instruct the kernel not to load the intel_rapl module:
echo blacklist intel_rapl >> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
Just update boot files (with the new configuration):
update-initramfs -u -k all