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 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 #
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...
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