On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:51:36 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I think I found my real problem. I've just been on a trip through the BIOS settings where I found the BIOS had disabled the hardware acceleration stuff. I'll try again, I bet it works better this time...
I vaguely recall that virt-manager was going to give a warning about this case. There is probably one in the system logfiles (from when kvm-intel.ko was loaded).
Actually, it turns out the BIOS setting was for something else. Apparently this machine does not have virtualization support (even though I was under the impression it was specifically purchased with that as one of the required features, which was why I didn't look into it earlier - Mordac is messing with me again :-).
It certainly isn't at all obvious from virt-manager that no hardware support is available (not if you don't already know what hardware support looks like in virt-manager, anyway).