Virt-manager install experience on Silverblue is lousy

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@bsder

which is the whole point that atomic operating systems try to avoid

Not really. Atomic systems have a different management tool, and it has support for handling RPMs.

The UX is not great at all, correct. If you layer all the metapackages you will install all the unneeded emulation packages

Minimal virt-manager install?

Note that virt-manager is essentially a libvirt client. The server and client can run on different hosts. I install libvirt from scratch like this: sudo dnf install \ libvirt-daemon-driver-network \ libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev \ libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu \ libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core \ qemu-audio-spice \ qemu-char-spice \ qemu-device-display-qxl \ qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu \ qemu-device-display-virtio-vga \ qemu-device-usb-redirect \ qemu-system-x86-core sudo systemctl --now e…

Replace dnf with rpm-ostree

HowTo: Use virtual machines on Atomic Desktops with virt-manager

If you want to run virtual machines on Atomic Desktops, there are multiple options. GNOME Boxes This uses libvirt and always the “qemu user session”, which may be preferred for security reasons. GNOME Boxes can run as a Flatpak which makes it very easy to install. It is easy to setup machines for a lot of distributions and also Windows, but the available settings might not be enough for you. virt-manager layered “Virtual Machine Manager” is a userfriendly and powerful application for creatin…