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That informed me that I was not running in KVM mode (disabled). So I halted the machine. I then launched the GUI '''virt-manager''' <code>sudo virt-manager</code>, created a new machine using the qcow image, and started it. Looking at the <code>ps axjfww</code> output on the host, I could see that the command "I" virt-manager used to start the VM was

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name guest=generic,debug-threads=on on -S -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-generic/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-bionic,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off -cpu Broadwell-noTSX-IBRS -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,socketssockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 4cbd5a21-bff7-4e66-8632-2e936507c658 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-generic/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1 -global global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbusmasterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x2 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -drive file=/home/greg/Downloads/debug-crash.qcow,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=26,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:4e:3e:15,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,image-compression=off,seamless-migrationmigration=on -device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -chardevspicevmcchardevspicevmc,id=charredir0,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir0,id=redir0,bus=usb.0,port=1 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir1charredir1,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir1,id=redir1,bus=usb.0,port=2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloballoon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -msg timestamp=on</blockquote> I also installed the '''qemu-virgil''' snap and was able to start the VM with KVM using<blockquote>sudo qemu-virgil -enable-kvm -m 512 -device virtio-vga,virgl=on -display sdl,gl=on -redir tcp:10022::2on02 -soundhw ac97 /home/greg/Downloads/debug-crash.qcow</blockquote> Turning to the libvirt project, I discovered that you can convert the XML to command-line args. So, after a quick <code>sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/uvtool/libvirt/images/ </code>, and placing the image there, I tried to run the VM with<blockquote>LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/kvm-spice -name guest=debug-crash,debug-threads=on -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-debug-crash/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-bionic,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -m 512 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 49cdd138-2fae-4f57-8fdc-d9bafabb92ac -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-debug-crash/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/uvtool/libvirt/images/debug-crash.qcow,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c9:bd:ff,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg timestamp=on</blockquote> but that failed because the specified AES key <code>-object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-debug-crash/master-key.aes</code> file does not exist. Removing that option, it still fails on a permission problem. The socket file doesn't exist, but it also doesn't get created... even using sudo to execute it as libvirt-qemu (that's the owner of the socket directory). Noticing that the final directory is missing, I ran it again after creating the '''domain--1-debug-crash''' directory. And looking again at my host system process list <code>ps axjfww</code> I could see that the command to start the VM is