Boxes on MX21 says this

[SwampRabbit]

@PaulGureghian1 thank you.

So I just did a test install of gnome-boxes using MX Package Installer, it installs and opens fine, but the window you shared a screenshot of manifested when I tried to create a Fedora VM quick.

I get the same line you had in your log

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(gnome-boxes:5119): Boxes-WARNING **: 13:57:33.262: review-page.vala:32: Box setup failed: Failed to create volume: internal error: creation of non-raw file images is not supported without qemu-img.

I haven't been able to dig into it more yet, the system I tested on is set up for virtualization, and it did work under MX-19 like you said.

[PaulGureghian1]

@SwampRabbit

Thanks for trying. since VB and VMW are a pain to setup, are there any other options, or will all hypervisors fail at this point on MX21 ?

[SwampRabbit]

@SwampRabbit

Thanks for trying. since VB and VMW are a pain to setup, are there any other options, or will all hypervisors fail at this point on MX21 ?

I think this is limited to Boxes only. I don’t use Boxes, so it’s gonna take a bit for me to figure out what is causing the problem, unless someone with experience comes along.

Can you change the title to something like
“Gnome Boxes error creating VM on MX-21”

It might be good to actually include the error coming up in that window, sorry working off phone right now so I can’t do it myself.

[PaulGureghian1]

@SwampRabbit

Thanks for trying. since VB and VMW are a pain to setup, are there any other options, or will all hypervisors fail at this point on MX21 ?

I think this is limited to Boxes only. I don’t use Boxes, so it’s gonna take a bit for me to figure out what is causing the problem, unless someone with experience comes along.

Can you change the title to something like
“Gnome Boxes error creating VM on MX-21”

It might be good to actually include the error coming up in that window, sorry working off phone right now so I can’t do it myself.

After puttering around a little, I fixed it. I had installed 'virt-manager' through apt. so I uninstalled it through MX package installer and then gnome-boxes,
then through package installer I installed first 'virt-manager' then boxes and it worked. I was told MX likes things installed with package installer instead
of apt. in this case it was true.




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[SwampRabbit]

gnome-boxes should pull in all required dependencies when installed, all the extra work should not be needed no matter if you use MXPI or apt-get.

gnome-boxes is coming from the Debian repos, not ours, so when you use MXPI it just does the same manual steps and downloads and installs if from Debian’s repos.

Not sure what the problem is or where it’s at yet. But I tried to install gnome-boxes and then Burt-manager and sure enough got the same warning message.

[fehlix]

Perhaps, this:

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sudo apt install qemu-utils

which provides the missing qemu-img, it complained about.

[PaulGureghian1]

gnome-boxes should pull in all required dependencies when installed, all the extra work should not be needed no matter if you use MXPI or apt-get.

gnome-boxes is coming from the Debian repos, not ours, so when you use MXPI it just does the same manual steps and downloads and installs if from Debian’s repos.

Not sure what the problem is or where it’s at yet. But I tried to install gnome-boxes and then Burt-manager and sure enough got the same warning message.

uninstall both boxes and virt-manager in mxpi and any orphans, then in mxpi install first virt-manager then boxes along with any recommended packages.

[PaulGureghian1]

Perhaps, this:

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sudo apt install qemu-utils

which provides the missing qemu-img, it complained about.

Yeah, that might do it, but I already fixed it by doing everything in mxpi in a certain order. thanks