Cannot start VM after installing
Distribution: Arch Linux
Kernel: Linux 5.6.2
Description: Cannot start virtual machine after installation process finishes.
Error message from Boxes when starting Windows 10: error.txt
Error message from journalctl -u libvirt
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon.
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: libvirt version: 5.10.0
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: hostname: X260CHNG
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: Cannot check dnsmasq binary /usr/bin/dnsmasq: No such file or directory
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: direct firewall backend requested, but /sbin/ebtables is not available: No such file or directory
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: internal error: Failed to initialize a valid firewall backend
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: internal error: Failed to find path for dmidecode binary
Apr 07 20:17:19 X260CHNG libvirtd[636]: internal error: Failed to find path for dmidecode binary
Attempted fix: I tried install dnsmasq
but that didn't seem to work, however it did solve my journalctl
errors from happening again.
Workaround: Use virt-manager or another QEMU/KVM frontend
Edited by Eric Cheng