[Bug 1767302] Re: User is not added to kvm group when installing gnome-boxes

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

That were quite some updates, but it shows
- the fix in >=Cosmic came in via systemd
- (at least atm) I do not intend to fix it in Bionic Qemu
- gnome-boxes in Bionic is affected and could get a fix (the suggested auto-adding of users to 
  group kvm if you want that)

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Title:
  User is not added to kvm group when installing gnome-boxes

Status in gnome-boxes package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-boxes source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed
Status in qemu source package in Bionic:
  Won't Fix
Status in systemd source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-boxes source package in Cosmic:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Cosmic:
  Invalid
Status in systemd source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-boxes source package in Disco:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Disco:
  Invalid
Status in systemd source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Installing gnome-boxes does not add the user to the needed kvm group.
  This leads to the problem that it is impossible to start any system within gnome-boxes.

  Gnome-Boxes throwes the error: CPU mode 'custom' for x86_64 kvm domain
  on x86_64 host is not supported by hypervisor

  adduser <username> kvm solves that problem but how should an average
  user know that. Gnome-Boxes is not usable as of now.

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