Virtmanager KVM warning

[Centaro]

I am trying to learn VM-QEMU and I get this error: “Warning: KVM is not available. This may mean the KVM package is not installed, or the KVM kernel modules are not loaded. Your virtual machines may perform poorly.”

doas pacman -S qemu virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq vde2 bridge-utils openbsd-netcat       

doas systemctl enable --now libvirtd

doas usermod -aG libvirt $USER

I have run these commands without issues. My BIOS has virtualization enabled and I think the following commands state that everything is in place.

lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_amd               176128  0
kvm                  1150976  1 kvm_amd
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm
ccp                   135168  1 kvm_amd

LC_ALL=C lscpu | grep Virtualization
Virtualization:                     AMD-V

zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y
CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y
CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF=y
CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y
CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y
CONFIG_KVM_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK=y
CONFIG_KVM=m
CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m
CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m
CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
CONFIG_KVM_XEN=y
CONFIG_KVM_EXTERNAL_WRITE_TRACKING=y

Any ideas what might be wrong? I have Virtualbox running 2 VM’s for me. Maybe there is a conflict?

[Centaro]

sudo usermod -aG libvirt-qemu $USER
sudo usermod -aG kvm $USER
sudo usermod -aG input $USER
sudo usermod -aG disk $USER

I added my user to these groups and rebooted the machine. That did it for me.

[Nachlese]

Here is the Arch wiki on the topic - link goes to section 2.1.1:

libvirt - ArchWiki

and this link to groups that where used before systemd:

Users and groups - ArchWiki