[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#857834: CPU model error

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 1:1.4.0-5
Severity: important


I installed virt-manager / libvirt / KVM for the first time on a stretch
system using the commands:


    apt-get install libvirt-doc virt-manager libvirt-clients virtinst
virt-top


downloaded the stretch ISO file debian-stretch-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso
and tried to make a VM running on the local machine.

In the wizard, I selected 2 CPUs and I clicked the "Copy host CPU
configuration" checkbox to try and get around another error (see bug
#857832).

When I clicked to create the VM, a popup appeared with the error "could
not access kvm kernel module permission denied"

I came across this bug report:

https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues/1095

and tried adding myself to the group kvm, that didn't help so I removed
myself from the group again.  Then I tried the solution at the bottom of
the bug report:


rmmod kvm_intel
rmmod kvm
modprobe kvm
modprobe kvm_intel



and the clicked to create the VM and it worked.