@chris.lamb as noted in https://bugs.debian.org/889990 I think logind should adjust the ACL as it does for the dri and audio devices.

sudo adduser <youruser> kvm

newgrp kvm
killall libvirtd
libvirtd

I think I've found the issue: Can you try to add the user to the KVM group and see if it helps?

Any chance somebody could run the above

What version of libvirt, qemu and gnome-boxes is pureos currently shipping? Any patches on top of Debian proper?

@kyle.rankin the setcap is only for a follow up problem. It won't help with the CPU type conflict.

Oh, installation on Debian buster works with e.g.:

@chris.lamb that's the same issue. Could someone having this problem please run

@chris.lamb yes, I think that's the same issue. I hope to get around to look at it again later this week.

Oh and

Hi,
can you please do a