yo_scottie_oh @ yo_scottie_oh @lemmy.ml

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try to sneakily make me register passcodes

Can you expand on this? I'm not sure what this means. Is it like instead of a full fledged password, just a four digit PIN or something? Thanks.

Thanks - this got me past the original issue. What I did is I opened up Flatseal and granted access to all system files for Virtual Machine Manager.

However, now I'm stuck at a different point. I can get past where I choose how much memory, CPU, and disk storage to allocate, but when I get to Step 5 and click Finish,

This happens:

    
Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-06-22T17:16:36.091623Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso': Permission denied'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 71, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 2008, in _do_async_install
    installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 726, in start_install
    domain = self._create_guest(
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 667, in _create_guest
    domain = self.conn.createXML(initial_xml or final_xml, 0)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4590, in createXML
    raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-06-22T17:16:36.091623Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso': Permission denied

  

This message is talking about permission denied, so I checked the file permissions, and I saw that the ISO file is owned by the qemu user:

    
myusername@fedora:~$ ls -la /run/media/myusername/path/to/installers
total 101472336
drwxr-xr-x. 2 myusername myusername       4096 Jun 16 14:47  .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 myusername myusername      12288 Jul 29  2024  ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 myusername myusername 7547453440 Oct 17  2024  bazzite-gnome-stable.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 qemu       qemu        702545920 Jun 12 17:00  debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso

  

I changed it to myusername:

    
sudo chown myusername:myusername /run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso

  

When I tried the same steps again, I got stuck in the same place and rerunning ls showed that the ISO file's ownership has reverted back to qemu.

Any ideas?

Here are the results of some commands that I believe answer your questions. When I run the ls command against that directory, it says no such file or directory. Could this have something to do w/ the fact that Virtual Machine Manager is running as a flatpak? (as the other commenter @ormith@lemmy.world has hinted)

Here's what I tried:

what are the permissions of /run/usr/1000/doc/c0a3c3fc

    
myusername@fedora:~$ ls -la /run/usr/1000/doc
ls: cannot access '/run/usr/1000/doc': No such file or directory

  

what user are you running VMM as

    
myusername@fedora:~$ ps aux | grep virt-manager
myusername      17995  0.0  0.0   3688  2048 ?        S    13:05   0:00 /usr/bin/bwrap --args 40 -- virt-manager
myusername      18011  0.0  0.0   3788  1396 ?        S    13:05   0:00 /usr/bin/bwrap --args 40 -- virt-manager
myusername      18013  1.5  0.3 889968 101424 ?       Sl   13:05   0:00 python3 /app/bin/virt-manager
myusername      18147  0.0  0.0 230340  2224 pts/0    S+   13:06   0:00 grep --color=auto virt-manager

  

EDIT: I got past this issue by opening up Flatseal and granting access to all system files for Virtual Machine Manager; however, now I'm getting stuck on another permission issue after I choose how much RAM, CPU, and disk space to allocate. Reference my response to @ormith@lemmy.world's comment.

Really glad to see World of Warcraft 64 gaining traction.

What's so great about Ghostty?

I love tools like this. Thank you for sharing.

ELI5?

How does one find such retired laptops? As an individual hobbyist in the US, would I just monitor eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook?

I was about to ask, wasn't Mullvad discontinued a few months ago? But I'm thinking of the Mull browser, right?

Should be.

One would think, but so you haven't actually done it, have you? Because I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure I tried to install Windows onto a USB drive one time. I couldn't get the installer to show the USB drive. I really want to be wrong, though.

It's possible to install Windows onto a USB? I ask b/c once in a blue moon I need a Windows install for mouse firmware updates or something.

No, no limits, we'll reach for the skyyyy

Noice! I am able to find this very thread through searxng, which seems to behave like an actual search engine with its own search results page, but I couldn't find it through fedi-search, which seems to be little more than an auto redirect tool.

https://fedi-search.com/

Hmm, this sounds like a really cool idea, but it doesn't seem to do what I thought it would. For example, I went to https://fedi-search.com/ and searched for "stop internet searching" expecting to find this very thread, but alas, no dice.

I do this as well—I'm currently automating a repetitive workflow for work using python. What's the latest project you've generated boilerplate code for?

So you'll copy and paste the URL for an eBay listing and it'll go out and fetch the price and quantity and calculate unit price?

That all sounds pretty neat. Do you do these things locally or is there a cloud service for that?

Care to expand on sound manipulation? Are you talking about for removing background noise from recordings or something else?

Do you take any precautions to protect your privacy from Google or are you just like, eh, whatever?

Table top games?