On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 21:27 David <[email protected]> wrote: ... > On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 10:39, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:06 Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In a previous thread you fellow Debianites gave me excellent advice on >>> running Windows on a VM >>> running on a Debian host. Now I have my shiny new Debian Silent PC host >>> quietly waiting.
> > I've followed the instructions from the Debian wiki, > Hi, please provide more information, such as a link. > So that we don't have to guess what you mean by "the instructions". link provided by this list: https://wiki.debian.org/KVM > Confirm that you have hardware virtualization enabled. > Search the web for instructions how to do that on your hardware. > It might be disabled in your BIOS. Excellent! Thanks! I forgot about that since I haven't used VirtualBox for many years. > When you have done that, paste your confirmation here. Results: It was NOT enabled, but it is now > Check that the output of 'id' command confirms that the > username is in group 'libvirt'. That check must be done in > the GUI, if you intend to use virt-manager. > When you have done that, paste your confirmation here. id shows I'm a member of the libvirt group > In general, if you use the command line instead of the GUI then you are > more likely to see any error messages, that you could then paste here to > receive further help. Okay, I'll try that later if need be. Thanks so much, David. I'll keep working and report results later. -Tom
