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blendOS•3y ago•
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How to get Virt-Manager running in a container

I've tried several different container versions but cannot get Virt-Manager to run in a container. It'll open but as soon as I go to add anything I get errors related to the daemon not running. Normally this is easy to fix on a bare metal. Ideas, maybe I'm just too tired, I set this down and came back to it with no luck.

Example error:
Sudo Systemctl enable libvirtd.service - this runs fine
Sudo Systemctl start libvirtd.service - this returns
"System has not been booted with systemd as initially system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: host is down"

Now I realize this is due to the way the container itself works I just don't know how to fix it. Ideas?
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