On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 10:39, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:06 Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a previous thread you fellow Debianites gave me excellent advice on >> running Windows on a VM running on a Debian host. Now I have my shiny new >> Debian Silent PC host quietly waiting. > > I've followed the instructions from the Debian wiki, Hi, please provide more information, such as a link. So that we don't have to guess what you mean by "the instructions". > fired up virt-manager, and got this warning: > > KVM is not available. This may mean the KVM package is not installed > or the KVM kernel modules are not loaded. I rarely use KVM so am probably not the best person to reply, but I have a couple of initial suggestions. I do not recognise that error message, which might indicate a specific (possibly kernel package related) issue and fix, if someone recognises it. In the meantime, a couple of general things you can check and report on: Confirm that you have hardware virtualization enabled. Search the web for instructions how to do that on your hardware. It might be disabled in your BIOS. When you have done that, paste your confirmation here. Check that the output of 'id' command confirms that the username is in group 'libvirt'. That check must be done in the GUI, if you intend to use virt-manager. Note that this preparatory step # adduser <youruser> libvirt does not affect any login sessions that <youruser> has created before running that command. If your GUI was running before you ran that command, you will need to logout of it and login again. When you have done that, paste your confirmation here. In general, if you use the commandline instead of the GUI then you are more likely to see any error messages, that you could then paste here to receive further help.
