[libvirt-users] dmesg shows Intel Virt., lsmod shows kvm_intel; "Host does not [have] virt. options"

[Quincy Wofford]

Thank you. Yes, the immediate problem was that I was missing the qemu-kvm
dependency.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:09 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 07:47:49AM -0600, Quincy Wofford wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've tried over at IRC and it appears the solution to this problem may
> not
> > be obvious.
> >
> > I'm working with a Centos7 box on HP ProLiant 380p hardware. The BIOS is
> a
> > bit outdated, but both Intel Virtualization Options and VT-d are present
> > and enabled in the firmware.
> >
> > Some relevant command outputs below:
> >
> > -bash-4.2$ dmesg | grep Virtualization
> > [    1.299295] DMAR: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
> > -bash-4.2$ lsmod | grep kvm
> > kvm_intel             174841  0
> > kvm                   578518  1 kvm_intel
> > irqbypass              13503  1 kvm
> >  sudo virt-install --virt-type kvm --name <my name> --memory 8192 --cdrom
> > <my path>/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso --disk size=4 --os-variant
> > rhel7
> > ERROR    Host does not support any virtualization options
> >
> > I don't see any options to increase the verbosity of virt-install. Any
> > ideas?
>
> Probably complaining that you're missing  the QEMU binary at a guess,
> but also check that 'virt-host-validate qemu' doesn't report any fails
> when run as root.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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