KVM issue

[MR]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 10:25 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm starting to try out kvm as a possible replacement for my VirtualBox VMs.
>
> My machine is running Xubuntu 21.10 and I have installed the following modules:
>
> First shot: qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients
> bridge-utils virtinst virt-manager
>
> After the group adjustments and a logout-login cycle, and a systemctl
> edit of the libvirtd service to add /usr/lib as a library, I ran the
> virt-manager and got this error on a New:
>
> Warning: KVM is not available. <and a lot of related text that doesn't copy>
>
> It seems to be up and running, so I poked around and found this
> install - linux-kvm.
>
> I added that and still get the warning.
>
> What did I miss?  What else needs to be installed to use kvm?
>
It gets worse.

When I rebooted from the last update, the kvm kernel won't boot - it
comes up on a blank screen and hangs.  I have to engage grub to boot
the previous kernel.

Now I want to get rid of the kvm image altogether.

Not happy about any of this....