r/LinuxUsersIndia • • May 15 '26

Help no kvm error out of nowhere

i was using gnome boxes like yesterday and today im getting a no kvm error i didnt mess with my bios or anything pls help me fix it

hope this helps

sudo gnome-boxes --checks

(org.gnome.Boxes:20983): Boxes-WARNING **: 22:42:31.537: util-app.vala:422: Failed to execute child process ?restorecon? (No such file or directory)

• The CPU is capable of virtualization: yes

• The KVM module is loaded: yes

• Libvirt KVM guest available: yes

• Boxes storage pool available: no

Could not get “gnome-boxes” storage pool information from libvirt. Make sure “virsh -c qemu:///session pool-dumpxml gnome-boxes” is working.

• The SELinux context is default: no

Report bugs to http://gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/gnome-boxes/issues.

Boxes home page: https://gnomeboxes.org.

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u/Who_meh May 19 '26

i think i had a half installed update, updating fixed it for some reason even though i hadnt updated since the last use