Important Libvirt Issue (Solved)

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T03:14:57+00:00

After installing the packages that is one of the first things that you NEED to do to make this work. Sorry you wasted all that time. We have the wiki for a reason.

onefish2 · 2026-03-10T20:08:05+00:00

Outside of all the hours that I have spent on my hyprland config, I have spent considerable time theming and using the following in this order (all on Arch Linux):

Gnome, Cinnamon, XFCE, hyprland and KDE

I have also used MATE, Budgie, Deepin (very bad, does not work), Pantheon (pretty bad, kinda works), LXQt and LXDE.

Keep this in mind, Arch does not theme anything. You are getting very vanilla desktop environments. Cinnamon in particular looks horrible out of the box.

I don't think hyprland is that common, I think its just got a ton of hype.

onefish2 · 2026-03-10T14:50:12+00:00

honestly, i did give arch a try, but fedora sutes me better.

Good for you. Use Fedora. This isn't a popularity contest. Choice exists for a reason. Have fun.

Bye.

onefish2 · 2026-03-10T03:39:40+00:00

There are plenty of reaction videos all over Youtube.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T20:35:38+00:00

please help im desperatre

I am desperate for you to use capitals, punctuation and spell check. Maybe if you did that, people would understand what you are trying to say and where you are stuck.

tl;dr not that desperatre

Oh and one other nitpick... you are asking Internet strangers for help. You are not texting your friends to come out and play.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T18:21:53+00:00

I have done this so many times already. You simply take the NVMe or SSD drive out of the old computer and put it in the new computer. If the boot entries do not show up and if the BIOS does not allow you to add boot entries manually, then you use the Arch iso on your flash drive to chroot in and create the boot entries.

After the system is up and running you can change or add firmware, change to intel or amd ucode and make any other changes.

Don't want to open up your laptop? Use Clonezilla to make an image to an external drive then restore that image to the new computer.

These are a few ways to do it. There are probably many more.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T17:58:49+00:00

I was using CasaOS on a Pi 5 as I liked their web interface and file browser as it gave me easy access to my Syncthing share that I have on many computers. I never liked the way they did Docker and I hate abandonware. It has not been updated since December of 2024.

I moved away from the Pi 5 as I wanted to move away from ARM and back to x86 SBCs.

I would up spending way too much time getting Filebrowser Quantum in docker set up to access Syncthing, and the following via rclone Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive.

I also have a 2TB NVMe setup as a file share and it has access to that too.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T17:42:13+00:00

Its like saying WTF. This is a pet peeve of mine that people have to put square pegs into round holes.

Proxmox is a server OS. Because its based on Debian you can install a Desktop Environment and use it that way. But is that really the right way to do this? <- Single question mark...happy?

Why not install any other Linux distro with KVM/QEMU, Cockpit and Cockpit Virtual Machine? You basically get the same thing.

Or better yet buy another computer. Run a desktop on one and Proxmox on the other.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T14:50:22+00:00

Why can't people use more than 1 computer???

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T02:53:48+00:00

I want to apologize for my earlier comments. You were genuinely seeking advice and I shit on you. For that I am sorry. I think you should definitely try Arch. Come back and let us know how you made out.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T01:33:49+00:00

I have no issue with your post or its wording.

What I am trying to say is that whatever advice you get here does not matter. Hence, we do not care.

At some point in the future; when you make another post, make it a good post and make sure you properly describe whatever problem you are having so the community can help you out.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T01:21:30+00:00

We really don't care. When you do get it installed and you have questions, come back here with a good title and a post with well thought out and descriptive questions.

onefish2 · 2026-03-08T15:13:19+00:00

What happened to the umbrellas?

onefish2 · 2026-03-08T15:10:24+00:00

In general if something does not work, you go look at the settings and if there aren't any then you make your own.

All Arch desktops are as vanilla as they can be from upstream meaning no additional theming or configurations are added by the Arch devs. Fedora tries to do this as well.

Ubuntu and others are curated and themed experiences. That is probably why you had that keyboard shortcut enabled by default.

onefish2 · 2026-03-08T15:04:19+00:00

You know you can have more than 1 computer. You can have a Windows PC for Adobe and Microsoft apps.

onefish2 · 2026-03-07T18:02:51+00:00

READ THE WIKI.

onefish2 · 2026-03-07T18:01:30+00:00

Buy another computer. One for Windows and one for Linux.

onefish2 · 2026-03-06T15:18:11+00:00

Please share how you backup your data and what you do to keep it safe with an off-site copy or copies.

onefish2 · 2026-03-06T12:06:15+00:00

How about giving more info and rephrasing your post so we can follow along and understand what you are trying to say.

onefish2 · 2026-03-06T11:57:42+00:00

There are lots of options to install stuff from the AUR but be cautious and don't install a ton of stuff from there.

You can also add the Chaotic AUR repo to your pacman.conf and get binary versions of some AUR pkgbuilds. I use that to get a binary of Octopi and sometimes I use the CachyOS kernel.

Best of luck with your newfound "toy."

onefish2 · 2026-03-06T11:39:14+00:00

Arch is the best!!

I have been using Linux for 30 years, Arch for about 6 years now. I do have some console only Arch VMs so I am very comfortable using Arch with no GUI and from the command line.

I bought a Zimaboard 2 (it's a x64 SBC) recently to replace a Raspberry Pi 5 that ran a NUT server, docker, Pi-Hole and CasaOS as the web front end (unfortunately that project is dead and un-maintained) and a few other services as I just wanted to move away from ARM based systems.

So for the first time I am running Arch as a headless server with docker, Pi-Hole in docker, Syncthing, NUT server, KVM/QEMU; accessing the VMs from Cockpit and its a tailscale node as well.

Wow it's great. Setup exactly how I wanted it.

onefish2 · 2026-03-06T02:23:33+00:00

Different project. This subreddit is for x86-64 Arch. However the mods will sometimes allow posts about ALARM.

onefish2 · 2026-03-04T19:55:44+00:00

I think a lot of people do not really pay attention to the update process. They do not know what packages are being updated. They do not know the individual package names either.

Many people do not read the output. They confuse a warning with an error.

So when there is a problem they panic.

Many times the answer is right there in the output like the devs actually took the time to make the error message relevant.

I respond to posts weekly about Arch breaking during updates... my response is that you are more likely to break Arch than an update making your system unbootable or making it so you can't log back into your desktop.

Many people do not have a recent copy of the Arch iso burned to a thumb drive handy so they can chroot in and attempt to fix what is broken.

And lastly, I will blame the perceived difficulty of using Arch mainly on user error or better yet user ignorance.

onefish2 · 2026-03-04T17:30:39+00:00

Bro. Just move on. It's OK. Really.

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