Basically, this needs screenshots from Linux, but I won’t get around to this until I fully reset my entire machine and fresh install Arch. This page is kind of empy rn. We’ll want to make sure we include a quick troubleshooting guide by having systemctl status logs let us know whats wrong with the service.

You're now able to open Virtual Machine Manager, also known as Virt-Manager for the first time! This is to verify that our configuration of the package succeeded, and we see Connecting... disappear and QEMU/KVM actively connected and ready to create VMs on.

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The above is a successful connection to the KVM module as a root user.




Common Troubleshooting Tips

If your Virt-Manager window looks like the following:

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You'll need to go through some basic steps to read the logs and determine the appropriate fix.

The rest of this page, will have that information lol, this is all being written from within macOS, so it’s hard to be super in depth at the moment.




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