I poked around the BIOS settings and even installed a UEFI update, to no avail (which didn’t surprise me because I’ve used a few applications requiring VT-x on this machine in the past). Turns out, it works just fine by executing sudo gnome-boxes in a terminal, but that’s a bit janky for daily use. Interestingly, managing Qemu/KVM machines using virt-manager works just fine if I open it from the applications menu without root privileges.
Is there a non-hacky fix for this? I’d like to avoid modifying the .desktop file or something like that.
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This is very odd. Gnome-boxes should not require root privileges as far as I know. Is this a fresh install? Could you check the messages in the journal when you run gnome-boxes to see what it says? Could be a permissions error:
I’ve made some progress: this behavior happens only with a specific, downloaded ISO (Ubuntu 20.04). Should’ve checked that beforehand, sorry Fedora ISOs that I had laying around work fine. Still weird though that this Ubuntu ISO works if I start Boxes as root.
Unfortunately I can’t test if the images work that Boxes can download for me, due to a very slow internet connection. but I guess that means this is solved.
Thank y’all!
For the record: my system was installed a few days ago, I’ve just installed some packages and poked around in the settings a bit but nothing more. It’s fully up to date.
I’m just getting started with Fedora and came across a problem.
Fedora ISOs that I had laying around work fine. Still weird though that this Ubuntu ISO works if I start Boxes as root.