Subject: bug#44805: Guix System Problem with GNOME Boxes

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:53:57 -0500

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:00:55PM +0330, Pelian Pur wrote:
> To build a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes, I have this problem:
> "virtualization extensions are unavailable on your system. Check your
> bios settings to enable them."
> 
> I had not encountered this problem on other operating systems such as Debian.

I recommend checking the permissions of /dev/kvm, and if the GNOME Boxes
application has permission to access /dev/kvm.