On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:04:47AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:50:09AM +1100, Jookia wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > >> > So on my Libreboot-enabled machine, KVM does not work. In fact, even > >> > starting qemu with KVM enabled on it appears to crash my whole system. > >> > Not only does "guix system vm" not work, even "guix system vm-image" can > >> > take the whole machine down! > >> > >> Currently the 'solution' I've found is to edit Guix to remove the two > >> instances > >> of '--enable-kvm' which works somewhat, though it's slower as there's > >> absolutely > >> no acceleration. > >> > >> > It would be nice to have a --no-kvm switch, because I'd really like to > >> > make use of Guix's nice VM features! > > > > It's not a proper fix, but this patch achieves that on my non-Libreboot > > machine. Can you see if it works for you? > > > > [...] > > Good news there, that does work and I am able to boot a VM through that > route! > > I would really like to be able to protect myself from accidentally > crashing my system by making sure that if /dev/kvm is not there that we > don't do --enable-kvm, so maybe I could do that if we can figure out how > to make blacklisting actually work. In the meanwhile, maybe I should > add a --no-kvm flag to "guix system vm"?
We definitely want to automatically disable KVM if it's not available. But I think it would also be useful to have a --no-kvm option.
