The virt-manager flatpak doesn’t work out of the box, you need to do some setup on the host. At that point you may as well use the deb of virt-manager.
Is there now a flatpak for virt-manager?
I assume its this one: https://flathub.org/apps/org.virt_manager.virt-manager but its unverified and not directly from the actual developers.
that is a good point… I obviously missed that. my generally would only use flatpak from the same developer of the app, or I will just use the deb packaged by my distro.
If you install virt-manager on Debian via apt it will have full system acres and also automatically install and configure libvirt, so this method is preferred.
I would use the native version. For something like this, it makes sense that it should have less restricted/sandboxed access to the underlying system.
i am not sure which one is the native version… you mean the version packaged by the distro (deb) or the developer (flatpak)?
In this case I meant the one packaged by your distro.
Hmm, wouldn’t the virt manager just be a frontend and communicate with the virtd socket though?
virt-manager only requires access to the libvirtd socket, as long as the flatpak.has that as default configuration (which I imagine would be the case), there’s zero difference beteween flatpak and native.
In my experience, this is not the case. It just says it can’t connect. Doesn’t specify how or where to.
actually there is difference in version between the two. deb by my distro is in 4.0.0 (mar, 2022) while flatpak is 5.0.0 (nov, 2024)
