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Dulbi

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smolvm v1.18.1-1 error with libkrun.so

I've installed smolvm v1.18.1-1 and there is the following issue :

Starting ephemeral machine (vm-6e7a5c86)...
Error: agent operation failed: start machine: agent operation failed: monitor agent: Error: agent operation failed: load libkrun: failed to load /usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrun.so: libvirglrenderer.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (boot process exited (code 1) before the agent was ready)

which is perfectly correct:

❯ locate libkrun
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrun.provenance
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrun.so
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrun.so.2
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrun.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrunfw.so
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrunfw.so.5
/usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrunfw.so.5.5.0

I'm not an expert but I think given the libkrun and libkrunfw are also coming from the smolvm GH repo, the PKGBUILD file should reference the ad-hoc versions (see https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … heads#L15).

seth

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Re: smolvm v1.18.1-1 error with libkrun.so

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/smolvm/ lists https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … lrenderer/ as make dependency but seems its a runtime one.
=> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … work_items

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm includes specific versions of krun* to bundle them - it might be possible to just link it against the main versions but that would only be reasonable if smolvm has a build switch for that (not by re-linking stuff downstream)

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Dulbi

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Registered: 2026-04-01

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Re: smolvm v1.18.1-1 error with libkrun.so

I've updated to the latest version so far (v1.24.0) and I've also added the virglrenderer to fix the following error:
Error: agent operation failed: start machine: agent operation failed: monitor agent: Error: agent operation failed: load libkrun: failed to load /usr/lib/smolvm/lib/libkrun.so: libvirglrenderer.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (boot process exited (code 1) before the agent was ready)

I guess it might be included as a requirement though

seth

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Re: smolvm v1.18.1-1 error with libkrun.so

You'll have to report this at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … work_items - packaging errors won't be resolved in the BBS

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