alt Hacker News> Virt manager drives me crazy because it hides the VM files in its own directory with permissions that aren't yours forcing you to use sudo to manually manage your own fucking vm files.
I just checked my `~/.local/share/libvirt/`. It doesn't do this for me, and I don't think it ever has.
I do remember having to set this up at some point. Looks like this is it:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/799034/whats-the-di...
There are some limits around network ports in User Sessions, but it should suffice for anything you'd use Vagrant for.
> Creating a new VM? You're forced to pick an OS by typing the name of your OS into a search box which is tedious and doesnt give you an option for generic x86 machine.
...There is though? It's in the dropdown under "Generic or unknown OS. Usage is not recommended (generic)". Here it is in the code if you don't believe me:
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/c3df2ba/vi...
And a random tutorial which makes use of it:
https://cyberlab.pacific.edu/courses/comp178/resources/virtu...
There are two ways to run the Libvirt daemon, which are unprivileged and privileged aka system. You are using unprivileged mode, the parent is using system mode which is more powerful and provides better isolation but does hide stuff in /var.
For example, running QEMU as its own user and using PCI passthrough is only possible with the system daemon.
You also need the system daemon to set up bridged networking, though the unprivileged daemon can use it through a setuid helper.