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

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > After compiling gnome-boxes-3.16.2 from source, I am unable to get it 
> > to work.
> >
> > Using "gnome-boxes --checks", the first problem is:
> >
> > Boxes storage pool available: No
> >
> > I can fix this with:
> >
> > $ mkdir -p ~/.local/libvirt/images
> > $ virsh pool-define-as gnome-boxes dir - - - - ~/.local/libvirt/images
> >
> > ..but shouldn't gnome-boxes take care of this automatically?
> >
> > I am unable to solve the next problem:
> >
> > . Libvirt KVM guest available: no
> I would try loading the kvm_intel module by hand (or the equivalent AMD
module),
> if this fails dmesg has more details. Usually this has to be enabled in
the BIOS of your box
> before you can use it.
Thanks for the reply.

I did load the kvm-intel kernel module manually and confirmed that it was
loaded and working prior to testing gnome-boxes using:

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -blah-blah