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

["'Christophe Fergeau'" <cfergeau redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:08:52PM +0400, John Frankish wrote:
> > > 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

I would check with lsmod |grep kvm (you need both kvm and kvm-intel in
there), I don't know if -enable-kvm falls back to software emulation
when kvm is not present or errors out.

Christophe
>

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