Virt-manager: Difference between revisions

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You will get a warning when you open it for the first time
You will get a warning when you open it for the first time:


<code>Could not detect a default hypervisor. Make sure the appropriate QEMU/KVM virtualization packages are installed to manage virtualization on this host.
<code>Could not detect a default hypervisor. Make sure the appropriate QEMU/KVM virtualization packages are installed to manage virtualization on this host.
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A virtualization connection can be manually added via File->Add Connection</code>
A virtualization connection can be manually added via File->Add Connection</code>


To resolve
To resolve:


<pre>
<pre>
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</pre>
</pre>


The same can also be achieved decoratively by setting the corresponding dconf settings with home-manager. If you want to do this instead of the imperative configuration described above, add the following snippet to your home-manager configuration:
The same can also be achieved declaratively by setting the corresponding dconf settings with home-manager. If you want to do this instead of the imperative configuration described above, add the following snippet to your home-manager configuration:
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
dconf.settings = {
dconf.settings = {
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   };
   };
};
};
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>


You can get the following error :  
You may get the following error:


<code>authentication unavailable: no polkit agent available to authenticate action 'org.libvirt.unix.manage'</code>
<code>authentication unavailable: no polkit agent available to authenticate action 'org.libvirt.unix.manage'</code>


To resolve, add the user to the <code>libvirtd</code> group.
To resolve, add the user to the <code>libvirtd</code> group:


<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">