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

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > > This should have some <guest> capabilities too referencing QEMU
> > > binaries...
> > >
> > >   <guest>
> > >     <os_type>hvm</os_type>
> > >     <arch name='x86_64'>
> > >       <wordsize>64</wordsize>
> > >       <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
> > >       <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-2.4</machine>
> > > [snip]
> > >       <domain type='qemu'/>
> > >       <domain type='kvm'>
> > >         <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
> > >         <machine maxCpus='255'>pc-i440fx-2.4</machine>
> > > [snip]
> > >       </domain>
> > >     </arch>
> > >  </guest>
> > Hmm - thanks for the help so far BTW :)
> >
> > Considerable use of google has not turned up much - Is there a virsh 
> > command that creates the guest qemu entries?
> >
> > ..or is libvirt supposed to pick this up for itself?
>
> It's going to pick that up by itself, going to look for qemu binaries in
well-known
> location, and query their capabilities (or something like that).
They're all there:

/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
...

..which makes me think that I missed compiling qemu against something that
libvirt needs, but what and how to find out?

Regards
John