Unable to start VM in gnome-boxes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-boxes (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) Ubuntu Release Information
Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release: 18.04
2) Package Information
gnome-boxes:
Installed: 3.27.92-1
Candidate: 3.27.92-1
Version table:
*** 3.27.92-1 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3) What I expect to happen:
VMs launch successfully within gnome-boxes.
4) What happens instead.
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04, I have not be able to start any VMs. Running gnome-boxes from the terminal shows the following error:
(gnome-boxes:7430): Boxes-WARNING **: 10:31:57.204: machine.vala:620: Failed to start bionic-
Please also find attached the troubleshooting log directly from Boxes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-boxes 3.27.92-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu-
Date: Thu Mar 29 10:35:07 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-24 (155 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-03-21 (8 days ago)
Update: adding myself to the kvm group fixes this issue.