Cannot begin installation on virt manager | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

haughty rock Sep 22, 2022, 3:09 PM

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couldn't find anything in arch wiki either

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this is my XML: disk type="dir" device="disk">
<driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
<source dir="/mnt/drives/SSD2/WindowsLTSC"/>
<target dev="vda" bus="virtio"/>
</disk>

earnest river Sep 22, 2022, 3:15 PM

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Be sure that you installed virt Manager right

haughty rock Sep 22, 2022, 3:15 PM

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how do i do that? just pacman -S?

earnest river Sep 22, 2022, 3:16 PM

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haughty rock how do i do that? just pacman -S?

.aw virt-manager

warm coyoteBOT Sep 22, 2022, 3:16 PM

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Arch Wiki: Virt-Manager

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virt-Manager

earnest river Sep 22, 2022, 3:16 PM

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.aw qemu

warm coyoteBOT Sep 22, 2022, 3:16 PM

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Arch Wiki: Qemu

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qemu

haughty rock Sep 22, 2022, 3:47 PM

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ive followed to a T

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sadly still get it

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termuwu

haughty rock Sep 22, 2022, 4:51 PM

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i tried reformatting the drive to exFAT but didnt work :(

haughty rock Sep 22, 2022, 5:54 PM

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i tried creatin the vm using my boot drive and it works

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its just the other sata drives

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that are under "dir" format

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cannot reformat them since even when in exFAT it still says "dir"

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