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

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > > > 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.
No, I deliberately set "--prefix=/usr/local" because for this distro (tinycorelinux) all non-base software 
goes in /usr/local.

The libvirt configure script automatically assumes qemu is present, but the configure script finds 
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 anyway.

There appear to have been two problems:

1. The configure script didn't find /usr/local/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper

2. libvirt uses libyajl to query qemu capabilities and it was not present

After fixing this, "virsh capabilities" shows guest details and boxes runs :)

Unfortunately boxes does not display input/process input until I click on the "<" button, and choose the same 
vm window :(

..but that's probably the subject of another thread

Thanks again for the help.

John