Re: Boxes on Mageia

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 06:22:27PM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:22:31PM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
> >> I can do that when I get back to the computer (*and* check the BIOS
> >> settings). When I ran it this morning all the guests were hvm, no kvm.
> >
> > True! I really thought it was kvm before. I think our qemu is only
> > supposed to do kvm. No idea what hvm is :P
> 
> Virtual machine enabled in BIOS, kvm-amd module loads.
> 
> I uninstalled and re-installed qemu but still get...
> 
> $ virsh capabilities
> <capabilities>

>   <guest>
>     <os_type>hvm</os_type>
>     <arch name='i686'>

...snip...

>       <domain type='kvm'>
>         <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>         <machine>pc-0.14</machine>
>         <machine canonical='pc-0.14'>pc</machine>
>         <machine>fedora-13</machine>
>         <machine>pc-0.13</machine>
>         <machine>pc-0.12</machine>
>         <machine>pc-0.11</machine>
>         <machine>pc-0.10</machine>
>         <machine>isapc</machine>
>       </domain>

...

> </capabilities>

This shows that KVM support is detected by libvirt, so it
should work.


> Running gnome-boxes still gives me...
> 
> Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:136: Unable to start domain: internal
> error Process exited while reading console log output: char device
> redirected to /dev/pts/1
> No accelerator found!
> KVM not supported for this target


Can you show the contents of $HOME/.libvirt/qemu/$GUESTNAME.log


Daniel
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