Virt Image

Containerfile for building a virt-manager image.

This image is based on top of vanillaos/pico and offers a virt installation.

Build

Requirements

• Vib
• Podman or Docker

Build the image

vib build recipe.yml
podman image build -t vanillaos/virt .

Run

Requirements

• Podman or Docker
• Distrobox

Usage

The container needs to be rootfull.

distrobox create --root --init --unshare-groups --unshare-ipc --unshare-netns --unshare-process -i ghcr.io/vanilla-os/virt:main -n virt # replace with your local image if you built it
distrobox enter --root virt

Then start virt-manager:

virt-manager

Troubleshooting

Unathorized when sharing a USB device

This should not happen, the image has a dedicated Polkit policy for this. If you encounter this issue, please open an issue.

Cannot connect to a remote libvirt daemon over SSH

Please, refer to this from the Distrobox documentation.

Default network unreachable

If the default network is unreachable, try to start it manually:

sudo virsh net-start default
virsh net-autostart default

if the above command fails due to missing network, try loading it from the XML:

sudo virsh net-define /usr/share/libvirt/networks/default.xml
sudo virsh net-start default
virsh net-autostart default