Virtual Manager 5.1.0

General Help
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I started trying to run Windows in a Virtual machine.
I had lots of problems with Oracle Virtualbox and also with the VMWare Workstation.
I tried out Gnome boxes and this works but you can see the guest os runs a lot slower and there's also a lot of features missing.

So yesterday I started trying with virtual manager and if I install Virtual manager as a Snap package (rel 4.1.0) I can start installing a virtual machine for Win11.

Bu then I saw that there is now the new Virtual manager 5.1.0 if you install it as a flatpak.
But I keep on getting permission errors on the storage pool when creating a new virtual machine for Win11.

I know rel 5.1.0 is new (August 26) but is there already somebody able to get it up and running?

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Hi, I can't remember what version of virt-manager I am using but I get mine via terninal or Synaptic Package Manager, but I am not using Zorin these days. I suspect it might be down to the fact that Zorin is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and therefore the newer version may have some library conflicts?

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The Permission Errors could be because it is a Flatpak. You could use the Program Flatseal to give it more Permissions. Or You stay on the Snap when it works for You. Or you take the .deb Version from the Repos. You can install it with:

sudo apt install virt-manager
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yeah the 5.1 flatpak is way more locked down than the snap. those storage pool permission errors are almost always the sandbox not being able to write the default pool (/var/lib/libvirt/images). i used flatseal (or flatpak override --user --filesystem=home --filesystem=/var/lib/libvirt org.virt_manager.virt-manager) then made a new pool under ~/VMs instead of fighting the system one. also make sure virt-manager is on qemu:///system not session and your user is in the libvirt group. snap 4.1 working and the flatpak dying on the pool is a pretty classic permissions thing, not a win11 iso issue.

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Thanks a lot, I will try it out and see where it gets me.

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Yes the APT one is certainly more workable. I never use the default /var location for the .qcow2 images. I create a pool in my /home folder as it is the biggest partition and therefore allows for multiple VM's, another reason to choose the something else method during install to separate '/' from '/home'.