Networking doesn't work out of the box in Virt-Manager on Bazzite

I'm trying to get a VM running using an existing .qcow2 image in Virtual Machine Manager (Flatpak version) on Bazzite, and I'm running into endless permission and configuration issues — particularly with networking.

The default network isn't active, and trying to start it gives permission errors like: cannot create directory /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq: Permission denied

This seems like something that should work out of the box. I'm not trying to do anything fancy — just basic NAT so the VM can access the internet.

Thanks,
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