Bug#691375: gnome-boxes auto installs even if processor doesn't support virtualization

[Russell Nathan Hyer]

Package: gnome-boxes
Version: 3.4.3+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
   When installing gnome on this system, you find that gnome-boxes is part of the standard install of the gnome desktop
   If you try and run gnome-boxes you'll find that it has an unfriendly user interface that fails if the processor it's running on doesn't support virtualization
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   To run gnome-boxes I navigated to this option in the menu, and tried to create a box based on an iso downloaded from the internet. But you then just get an error message that states:

   "Box creation failed"

   Researching on the internet, we see that only certain intel processors have the ability to support hardware virtualization. see: http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   Box creation failed
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   Successful creation of the box or failing that an adequate error message. Seeing as dmesg already polls for KVM and virtualization and seeing as there's a list of known processors that support this functionality, it should be possible to catch this error properly and to return a clear error message to the user.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-boxes depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-2
ii  fuseiso                                      20070708-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-35
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.10.8-2
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0                         1.2.0-2
ii  libcogl-pango0                               1.10.2-6
ii  libcogl9                                     1.10.2-6
ii  libffi5                                      3.0.10-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-4
ii  libgtk-vnc-2.0-0                             0.5.0-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               175-7
ii  libgvnc-1.0-0                                0.5.0-3
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           0.14.2-1
ii  libosinfo-1.0-0                              0.1.1-1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-1                   0.12-5
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1                    0.12-5
ii  libtracker-sparql-0.14-0                     0.14.1-2
ii  libvirt-bin                                  0.9.12-5
ii  libvirt-glib-1.0-0                           0.0.8-1
ii  libvirt0                                     0.9.12-5
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcomposite1                               1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxdamage1                                  1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxml2                                      2.8.0+dfsg1-6
ii  mtools                                       4.0.17-1
ii  tracker                                      0.14.1-2

gnome-boxes recommends no packages.

gnome-boxes suggests no packages.

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