Problem using KVM on Debian 8.5 Cinnamon

vitronix · 07-31-2016, 08:24 AM

Hello all of you out there,

I wanted to use a different virtualization then VMware Player.
I want to do everything the open source way.
I tried VirtualBox but wasn't very satisfied with that.
So I thought about using KVM and Qemu.
I have enabled virtualization on my i5 Intel CPU
The virtual machine manager runs.
But when I try to create a virtual machine I get the following error:

Code:

Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

Details:

Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied
'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 91, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1787, in do_install
    guest.start_install(meter=meter)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 403, in start_install
    noboot)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 467, in _create_guest
    dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 3440, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

I googled but nothing useful came up
Does anybody have any idea?

Thanks in advance,

Vitronix

hydrurga · 08-01-2016, 07:19 AM

It doesn't answer your question, but what was it about VirtualBox that you didn't like?

jefro · 08-01-2016, 03:25 PM

"Permission denied" tends to make me think of a file based or user based permission.

Are you creating a client from a gui?

You should be able to run terminal program qemu (or some such name) and see if it runs and returns some error since the is no script to run.

vitronix · 08-02-2016, 09:26 AM

I feel realy stupid: I did not install qemu properly, things are running fine now.

What I like about qemu is the fact that you can run vm's of a different architecture like ARM.

Only thing that I have to figure out is how to select where the virtual disk is created, I would like to do that i my home folder.
But I will figure that out by myself.
Sorry for the fact that I have been wasting your time.