On Sat, 20 May 2023 at 16:05, Graham Addis <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for the late reply.
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:31, Graham Addis <[email protected]>
> > 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
