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Running virt-manager on Vanilla OS via Distrobox
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| DBX_SUDO_PROGRAM=pkexec /usr/share/apx/distrobox/distrobox create \ | |
| --pull \ | |
| --root \ | |
| --init \ | |
| --unshare-all \ | |
| --image ghcr.io/vanilla-os/pico:main \ | |
| --name libvirtd \ | |
| --additional-flags "-p 2222:22" \ | |
| --init-hooks "apt update && apt install -y openssh-server libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients qemu-system qemu-utils virt-manager && systemctl enable ssh.service && systemctl enable libvirtd && usermod -aG libvirt $USER" | |
| DBX_SUDO_PROGRAM=pkexec /usr/share/apx/distrobox/distrobox-enter --root libvirtd -- distrobox-export --app virt-manager |
I think for openSUSE pkexec is not necessary 🤔
You're right but distrobox will still prompt for root password via sudo anyway (since it's a root distrobox), so either works really.
Makes sense.
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I think for openSUSE pkexec is not necessary 🤔