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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 |
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Ciao Marco
I have a question. I'm on Kalpa Desktop. To have USB passthrough, does Libvirtd need to be running on the host system as well as in the distrobox container? And with the appropriate udev rules?
and... What if I want to use spice with virt-manager?
Ciao e grazie
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Makes sense.