Re: virt-manager (was Re: Virtual Box)
On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> I tried this out myself recently, but couldn't get it to work; it
> reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running".
>
> As far as I can tell, the problem boils down to the fact that I refuse
> to have libpam-systemd installed, which means that I can't install
> policykit-1, which means that I can't install libvirt-daemon-system,
> which means libvirtd doesn't get run automatically.
>
There's actually a bug report concerning this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765448
Paul Floyd at the bottom hacked his way to a crude (well) solution by
modifying the dependency in /var/lib/dpkg/status on "policykit-1" to
"policykit-1 | sysvinit-core," which allowed him to install
libvirt-daemon-system.
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