I'm trying to generate a disk image of Guix. The image creation process goes fine until the start of QEMU: creating raw image of 2607.99 MiB... Formatting '/gnu/store/fwjlpcwc3b81m2s6phwldwyxpd3wzsjm-disk-image', fmt=raw size=2734679872 Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied qemu-system-x86_64: failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied file-size: /gnu/store/xsb0k5lrbrc63kardzxa7h4qvland6n2-profile/etc/ssl/certs/NetLock_Arany_=Class_Gold=_F??tan??s??tv??ny:2.6.73.65.44.228.0.16.pem: No such file or directory file-size: /gnu/store/xsb0k5lrbrc63kardzxa7h4qvland6n2-profile/etc/ssl/certs/T??RKTRUST_Elektronik_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sa??lay??c??s??_H5:2.7.0.142.23.254.36.32.129.pem: No such file or directory file-size: /gnu/store/xsb0k5lrbrc63kardzxa7h4qvland6n2-profile/etc/ssl/certs/AC_Ra??z_Certic??mara_S.A.:2.15.7.126.82.147.123.224.21.227.87.240.105.140.203.236.12.pem: No such file or directory file-size: /gnu/store/d48rkmvrbzaabxdldcrdps7cf27rm092-nss-certs-3.35/etc/ssl/certs/NetLock_Arany_=Class_Gold=_F??tan??s??tv??ny:2.6.73.65.44.228.0.16.pem: No such file or directory file-size: /gnu/store/d48rkmvrbzaabxdldcrdps7cf27rm092-nss-certs-3.35/etc/ssl/certs/T??RKTRUST_Elektronik_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sa??lay??c??s??_H5:2.7.0.142.23.254.36.32.129.pem: No such file or directory file-size: /gnu/store/d48rkmvrbzaabxdldcrdps7cf27rm092-nss-certs-3.35/etc/ssl/certs/AC_Ra??z_Certic??mara_S.A.:2.15.7.126.82.147.123.224.21.227.87.240.105.140.203.236.12.pem: No such file or directory Backtrace: 2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/iyjms00w31p51gz9jfdvrlk7qnd?") In ./gnu/build/vm.scm: 163:4 1 (load-in-linux-vm _ #:output _ #:qemu _ #:memory-size _ ?) In unknown file: 0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("qemu failed" "qem?") #) ERROR: In procedure scm-error: qemu failed "qemu-system-x86_64" builder for `/gnu/store/qaaf9mr4zwdpfxg0a7gvgl6wyrwrg5dn-disk-image.drv' failed with exit code 1 guix system: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/qaaf9mr4zwdpfxg0a7gvgl6wyrwrg5dn-disk-image.drv' failed My host system is Void Linux (which I don't know so well). Permissions for /dev/kvm seem to be correct: > ls -l /dev/kvm crw-rw---- 1 root kvm 0 2018-03-03 14:56 /dev/kvm My user is part of the kvm group. Also the module seems to be loaded fine: > lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 225280 0 kvm 630784 1 kvm_intel irqbypass 16384 1 kvm Not sure what's wrong. I am not very familiar with QEMU / KVM I'm afraid... Any clue? Besides, and maybe unrelated, some certificates seem to be missing. Any idea how that could happen? -- Pierre Neidhardt