3.1 doesn't work with Travis

[anatoly techtonik]

Running snapcraft with sudo gives:

$ sudo snapcraft
Launching a VM.
launch failed: CPU does not support KVM extensions.
An error occurred when trying to launch the instance with 'multipass': returned exit code 2.
Ensure that 'multipass' is setup correctly and try again.
The command "sudo snapcraft" exited with 2.

https://travis-ci.org/sdg-mit/gitless/jobs/491046025#L205

Running without sudo:

$ snapcraft
Launching a VM.
launch failed: multipass socket access denied
Please check that you have read/write permissions to '/run/multipass_socket'
An error occurred when trying to launch the instance with 'multipass': returned exit code 2.
Ensure that 'multipass' is setup correctly and try again.
The command "snapcraft" exited with 2.

https://travis-ci.org/sdg-mit/gitless/jobs/491034488#L203

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

I have exactly the first error but while trying to run snapcraft without sudo. I'm trying to build a C++ software snap in a 16.04 virtualbox VM since I'm running 18.10 on my laptop.

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

I understood that it's happening because I'm running snapcraft inside a vm and the virtual hardware in the guest system does not support Intel VT. So there should be a way to build the snap without using multipass.

Are you using a VM too @anatoly techtonik?

[Peter (peter-frohberg)]

I wanted to play with snapcraft in a virtualbox machine, so my system stays clean, and I get the same error as well. Is there at least a workaround?

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

You can use --destructive-mode considering you are running snapcraft from a sane environment.
Alternatively, --use-lxd is coming as an option through LP: #1805221

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

Considering the latter linked bug and the former comment on how to get around the VM creation I am proceeding to mark this bug as a dup