RE: gnome-boxes-3.16.2 - "Libvirt KVM guest available: no"

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > > > (gnome-boxes:28538): Libvirt.GLib-DEBUG: Error: internal error: 
> > > > client socket is closed
> > > > (gnome-boxes:28538): Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:463: Unable to 
> > > > get storage pool info: internal error: client socket is closed
> > > And here something goes wrong, not sure why though...
> > > I assume "virsh -c qemu:///session pool-list" is  working fine?
> > > Or maybe it's just a red herring and trying to create a VM would work?
> > Starting libvirtd as root does not create a libvirt-sock-ro owned by 
> > $USER
> I don't think this needs to be owned by user, just accessible by $USER.
> But Boxes seems to be coping just fine with that.
No, unless I change the group for libvirt-sock-ro to something accessible to
the user, boxes says it cannot connect to the socket. Note that libvirt was
compiled with "--with-qemu-group=appropriate_group"

> > $ mkdir -p /home/tc/.local/libvirt/images
> > $ virsh pool-define-as gnome-boxes dir - - - -
/home/tc/.local/libvirt/images
> >
> Maybe you need to start the pool as well, virsh pool-start gnome-boxes
$ virsh pool-start gnome-boxes
Pool gnome-boxes started

$ G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all gnome-boxes
...
(gnome-boxes:28203): Boxes-DEBUG: vm-creator.vala:376: Creating volume
'boxes-unknown'..
(gnome-boxes:28203): Boxes-DEBUG: vm-creator.vala:378: Created volume
'boxes-unknown'.
(gnome-boxes:28203): Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:463: Incapable host
system

Perhaps the qemu I compiled is missing some functionality required by boxes?

What does boxes need in qemu:

Spice?
Pulseaudio?
Anything else?

Regards
John