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

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:40 PM, John Frankish <john frankish outlook com> wrote:
> > > > 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

Well you have made the classic mistake of configuring with the default
/usr/local prefix. I'd guess your problem is that libvirt doesn't
check in /usr/local for qemu binaries and hence never finds them.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)