Package: gnome-boxes Version: 43.2-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, The problem is present on the gnome-boxes pacakge distributed in the current Debian stable branch, Bullseye. When creating a new virtual machine with the "+" button on the upper left corner, GNOME Boxes was hanging on the "Review and Create" menu, without showing anything inside the popup window. On a terminal, I saw the following messages: Boxes-Message: 20:12:50.764: libvirt-machine.vala:268: Failed to connection to system libvirt: Unable to open qemu+unix:///system: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro': No such file or directory (gnome-boxes:8952): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 20:12:50.820: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2722: handler '2749' of instance '0x561b3992a600' is not blocked (gnome-boxes:8952): Boxes-WARNING **: 20:12:56.637: review-page.vala:44: Box setup failed: Failed to create volume: internal error: creation of non-raw file images is not supported without qemu-img. (gnome-boxes:8952): Boxes-CRITICAL **: 20:12:56.637: boxes_assistant_review_page_populate: assertion 'machine != NULL' failed I then installed the qemu-utils package, which contains the qemu-img command, and the problem went away, with GNOME Boxes now proceeding on the "Review and Create" menu and showing the options to select how much RAM and disk space to allocate for the new virtual machine. However, I also saw a message on the popup window, containing the following text: "Virtualization extensions are unavailable on your system. Check your BIOS settings to enable them.". I found this odd, as I double checked that I indeed had virtualization support enabled in my BIOS. On the terminal, I saw the following messages: libvirt-machine.vala:268: Failed to connection to system libvirt: Unable to open qemu+unix:///system: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro': No such file or directory (gnome-boxes:5406): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 20:23:34.328: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2722: handler '2748' of instance '0x55a59ef865c0' is not blocked (gnome-boxes:5406): Boxes-WARNING **: 20:23:40.894: util-app.vala:442: Failed to execute child process ?virsh? (No such file or directory) I then installed the package libvirt-clients, which contains the virsh command, and this problem too went away. >From my observation, it seems that the gnome-boxes package should depend (or at least recommend) the qemu-utils and libvirt-clients packages. At the moment, gnome-boxes in Bullseye has no dependency on either package, not "Depends", not "Recommends" and not "Suggests" either. Since creating virtual machines is, in my opinion, an important feature for a graphical frontend to virtualization software, I think gnome-boxes should at least have a "Recommends" dependency on both libvirt-clients and qemu-utils, if not a mandatory "Depends" relationship. This is partially addressed in the testing branch (Trixie): there, gnome-boxes does have a "Depends" on libvirt-clients, but still no dependency of any kind on qemu-utils. Thank you for your attention. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-20-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-boxes depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-4 ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3.4 ii libarchive13 3.6.2-1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u6 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-7 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.38-2~deb12u1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 237-2 ii libhandy-1-0 1.8.1-1 ii libosinfo-1.0-0 1.10.0-2 ii libosinfo-bin 1.10.0-2 ii libsecret-1-0 0.20.5-3 ii libsoup-3.0-0 3.2.2-2 ii libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 0.42-1 ii libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 0.42-1 ii libtracker-sparql-3.0-0 3.4.2-1 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.26-1 ii libvirt-daemon 9.0.0-4 ii libvirt-glib-1.0-0 4.0.0-2 ii libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.42.5-1~deb12u1 ii libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1 ii tracker 3.4.2-1 Versions of packages gnome-boxes recommends: ii qemu-system-x86 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5 Versions of packages gnome-boxes suggests: pn gnome-connections <none> -- no debconf information
