I got virtual machine manager running on two Bazzite machines today. It was a
bit tricky, more than I thought actually. I ran into all sorts of
virtualisation not setup issues when I tried the flatpak. Then I found that
Bazzite comes with a ujust setup-virtualization command that does all the
work for me. I tried that and again virtual machine manager was here, but not
working, this time it feels like flatpak issues.
In a Hail Mary attempt I got it working by using an ubuntu distrobox container
to run the UI. And it worked!
from the host # [1]
From the host we create the container to use from distrobox. This is an ubuntu
machine, it can be any os of your choosing, preferably one that you are
familiar with and contains virt-manager in its package repos.
distrobox create -i ubuntu
distrobox enter ubuntu
from inside the distrobox container # [2]
Now that we are in the distrobox we are no longer in an immutable distro and we
can easily install anything we want. I actually like this process. I might
have shit like this that I use for a month or a few months, on a normal distro,
this is fully installed on the os, raises the potential of package conflicts
and lengthens the update ...
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latest post 2025-06-27
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Can't use System update - invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature · Issue #1316 · ublue-os/bazzite
Describe the bug Hello, I installed the nvidia KDE version of bazzite just 2 days ago. Today I wanted to update to the most recent release, but unfortunately, I keep getting the following error: Pu...
GitHub · github.com [1]
This fixed my bazzite update issues after the signing key was rotated recently. This team is killing it with such a great user experience.
curl -sL https://fix.universal-blue.org/ | sudo bash
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1316
[2]: /thoughts/