Help installing Whonix on virt-manager | secureblue | Page 1

serene iron Apr 9, 2025, 4:06 PM

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Help installing Whonix on virt-manager

glossy thorn Apr 9, 2025, 4:46 PM

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??is this anything to do with secureblue?

twin musk Apr 9, 2025, 4:49 PM

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glossy thorn ??is this anything to do with secureblue?

I'm assuming they're using virt-manager on secureblue 🙂

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that said, if this is about whonix not working in virt manager, and not about setting up virt manager on secureblue, then @glossy thorn is correct in that this is a question better suited for the whonix forums

mossy kindle Apr 9, 2025, 8:04 PM

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I followed the steps here to set up Whonix in virt-manager on secureblue and it worked just fine: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM

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so if you were following a different guide maybe try this ^ instead

mossy kindle Apr 11, 2025, 7:38 PM

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oh I think this is a bug with group management in Fedora Atomic, you need to add the group manually to /etc/group first

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so you can run getent group | grep libvirt to get the entry that should be there, add your username to the end of it, and put the line in /etc/group

mossy kindle Apr 12, 2025, 1:56 AM

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if you open a root shell using run0 and run the following command:

virsh -c qemu:///system net-list

what's the output?

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oh actually if you've added yourself to the libvirt group you might not need to do it from a root shell

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so you can just run it from a regular terminal, and if that doesn't work then try running it in a root shell

mossy kindle Apr 12, 2025, 12:39 PM

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no, I just meant for the virsh command

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so what this shows is that you haven't imported the Whonix virtual networks. when I run the same command, here's the output:

 Name              State    Autostart   Persistent
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 default           active   yes         yes
 Whonix-External   active   yes         yes
 Whonix-Internal   active   yes         yes

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you need to run the commands here to add the virtual networks, activate them, and import the Whonix Gatework and Workstation images to qemu: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM#Importing_Whonix_VM_Templates

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except since you've added yourself to the libvirt group, I don't think you need to run those commands as root, so remove sudo from the commands they give

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if you did need to run them as root, you'd want to open a root shell using run0 and run the commands in there, rather than prepending run0 to each command individually—the latter approach runs into problems with SELinux, it's currently a known issue with run0

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