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Welcome to the vagrant-libvirt wiki!

The primary documentation can be found here: https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt/blob/master/README.md

This wiki currently serves as an editable page for basic troubleshooting. Contributions are welcome!

Troubleshooting

Common runtime errors

could not find capabilities for domaintype=kvm or domaintype=qemu

This error from libvirt indicates that the VM type that vagrant-libvirt wants to create is not supported by the host. You must ensure that your QEMU installation is correct when you get domaintype=qemu, and that your hardware supports Intel VT-x or AMD SVM (check CPU capabilities and BIOS settings) when you get domaintype=kvm.

The invalid argument: could not find capabilities for domaintype=kvm is seen if the CPU does not support virtualization and/or the kvm kernel module is not loaded.

Here are the commands that can be used to check if the CPU supports virtualization and if the kvm kernel module is loaded:

# grep -i vmx /proc/cpuinfo
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt

#  lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel             170181  0 
kvm                   554609  1 kvm_intel
irqbypass              13503  1 kvm

Also make sure to restart system after initial package installation on the host.