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
> 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.
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -blah-blah

..fails with an error message when the kvm and kvm-intel modules are not
loaded

$ sudo modprobe kvm-intel
$ lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel          131072  0 
kvm                   221184  1 kvm_intel

 ..and the qemu vm is significantly faster when using "-enable-kvm"

How does gnome-boxes detect the kvm modules? Is there a way to get debug
output?

Regards
John