GNU bug report logs - #62517
installer-dump-ed8ac2cb

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Graham Addis <grahamjamesaddis <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:24:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Graham Addis <grahamjamesaddis <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Graham Addis <grahamjamesaddis <at> gmail.com>
To: 62517-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62517: installer-dump-ed8ac2cb
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 09:11:20 +0100
On Sat, 20 May 2023 at 16:05, Graham Addis <grahamjamesaddis <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I never did get KVM enabled on my windows 10 box.
>
> I ended up doing a bare metal guix install on an old laptop I had,
> which works fine, if a little slow.
>
> I'll close this. Thanks Simon
>
> On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 16:06, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for the late reply.
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:31, Graham Addis <grahamjamesaddis <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > qemu didn't like the -enable-kvm switch, so I left that out.
> >
> > I guess you need to enable KVM on your host distribution.  On default
> > Debian, I am running something like:
> >
> >     1. Check if =/dev/kvm= is there: =ls -l /dev/kvm=
> >     2. Add the user to the KVM group
> >        #+begin_src shell
> >          sudo usermod -a -G kvm <user>
> >          newgrp kvm
> >        #+end_src
> >     3. If it does not work, then try:
> >        #+begin_src shell
> >          sudo chmod 777 /dev/kvm
> >        #+end_src
> >
> > Once KVM is enable, do you have still the same issue?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > simon




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