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

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > $ 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:
> It indeed seems to be not happy with "virsh capabilities" content when it
says "Incapable host system"
>
Really?
Or is it that the distro iso I'm trying to open, corepure64, is unknown to
libosinfo?

$ virsh capabilities

<capabilities>

  <host>
    <uuid>5a89dcde-725b-45dd-983b-537ca3609680</uuid>
    <cpu>
      <arch>x86_64</arch>
      <model>Haswell-noTSX</model>
      <vendor>Intel</vendor>
      <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='2'/>
      <feature name='invtsc'/>
      <feature name='abm'/>
      <feature name='pdpe1gb'/>
      <feature name='rdrand'/>
      <feature name='f16c'/>
      <feature name='osxsave'/>
      <feature name='pdcm'/>
      <feature name='xtpr'/>
      <feature name='tm2'/>
      <feature name='est'/>
      <feature name='smx'/>
      <feature name='vmx'/>
      <feature name='ds_cpl'/>
      <feature name='monitor'/>
      <feature name='dtes64'/>
      <feature name='pbe'/>
      <feature name='tm'/>
      <feature name='ht'/>
      <feature name='ss'/>
      <feature name='acpi'/>
      <feature name='ds'/>
      <feature name='vme'/>
      <pages unit='KiB' size='4'/>
    </cpu>
    <power_management/>
    <migration_features>
      <live/>
      <uri_transports>
        <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport>
        <uri_transport>rdma</uri_transport>
      </uri_transports>
    </migration_features>
    <topology>
      <cells num='1'>
        <cell id='0'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16412708</memory>
          <cpus num='4'>
            <cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0'/>
            <cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='1'/>
            <cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='2'/>
            <cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='3'/>
          </cpus>
        </cell>
      </cells>
    </topology>
    <secmodel>
      <model>none</model>
      <doi>0</doi>
    </secmodel>
  </host>

</capabilities>