I'm getting "Error setting installer parameters" while attempting to set up a new VM in Virtual Machine Manager [SOLVED]
EDIT: tldr - I was having issues creating a VM using Virtual Machine Manager on Bazzite Linux. Several responders chimed in that it's likely because I'm using the flatpak version of VMM. I probably still could make it work on Bazzite somehow, perhaps w/ the help of distrobox, but instead I've fired up a VM on an old laptop running Linux Mint and everything is smooth sailing. Thanks to all who took some time to help me find a solution.
Original body:
Background: I'm looking to set up a virtual Debian server using Virtual Machine Manager, but I'm stuck on creating my first VM. I'm running Bazzite on my host machine if that makes any difference.
Steps to Reproduce the Issue:
- Launch Virtual Machine Manager.
- Click File > New Virtual Machine, which opens the "New VM - Step 1" window.
- Select "Local install media" and click Forward, which brings me to "New VM - Step 2."
- Click "Browse..." which opens the "Locate ISO media volume" window:
- Click "Browse Local," which opens the file browser.
- Choose ISO file (in my case, I'm using
debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso
) and click Select, which returns me to the "New VM - Step 2" window. - Because the OS is not detected automatically, I uncheck the "Automatically detect from the installation media / source" checkbox, start typing the word "debian" in the text box above it, and select Debian 12 from the pop-up selection menu.
- Click Forward.
Actual behavior:
Input Error - Error setting installer parameters. Validating install media '/run/user/1000/doc/c0a3c3fc/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso' failed. Could not start storage pool: cannot open directory '/run/usr/1000/doc/c0a3c3fc': Permission denied.
Expected behavior: Create the VM and boot into the ISO that I selected in previous steps.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
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Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32092416
[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]Other articles:
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- Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
- With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
- Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
- Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong
Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]
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- Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
- With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
- Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
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Will someone please tell CNN that USA has been violently attacking the middle east for like a century?
JFC it's like they just woke up yesterday.
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Hi, please kindly direct me to the right community to ask this:
Plasma 6 is my favorite DE and i use KDE neon.
The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea. But it does that the wrong way IMO. Dark windows are dimmed and bright windows are lit up. Why? Now i have both extremes switching back and forth all the time. Can we turn that the other way around or turn it off please?
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The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea.
That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.
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So I put Openmediavault on there and it's working now. But what are some of the best ways to get the most out of it?
Can I do most things through the browser interface, or should I remote into it to install things?
How easily can I mount it as a network drive to other computers? I still have a Windows PC so I'd like to access it from there too if possible.
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Happy to hear any feedback on what people do with OMV, or their setups for a NAS in general. This is more of a tinkering computer to get me more familiar with networks and Linux.
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You should be able to do everything through the web interface.
You can make network shares by creating shared folders under Storage->Shared Folders then configure your Windows shares through Services->SMB/CIFS
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So DNS Black-holing is not new obviously, and what stands out as the go to solution? Pihole probably... and yeah thats what im using because hey its a popular choice. Though I am running it in docker. Combining that with Unbound (also in docker), and configuring outbound DNS to use DNS over TLS, with a few additional minor tweaks, but otherwise mostly standard configuration on both.
Wondering what you guys might be using, and if you are using Pihole and/or Unbound if you have any tips on configuration.
Happy to share my config if there is interest.
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If you don't mind DM'ing me or dropping it in a comment here it would be greatly appreciated! The docker engine isn't something entirely new to me so i'm a bit skeptical into thinking that i missed something but always happy to compare with others, actually Docker is what pushed me to switch fully to Linux on my personal computers.
Snippet from my docker-compose.yml:
pihole:
container_name: pihole
hostname: pihole
image: pihole/pihole:latest
networks:
main:
ipv4_address: 172.18.0.25
# For DHCP it is recommended to remove these ports and instead add: network_mode: "host"
ports:
- "53:53/tcp"
- "53:53/udp"
- "127.0.0.1:67:67/udp" # Only required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server
- "127.0.0.1:85:80/tcp"
- "127.0.0.1:7643:443"
environment:
TZ: 'America/Vancouver'
FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'insert-password-here'
FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
# Volumes store your data between container upgrades
volumes:
- './config/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
- './config/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
- '/etc/hosts:/etc/hosts:ro'
# https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
- CAP_SYS_TIME
- CAP_SYS_NICE
- CAP_CHOWN
- CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
- CAP_NET_RAW
- CAP_NET_ADMIN
restart: unless-stopped
labels:
- "traefik.enable=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.rule=Host(`pihole.my.domain`)"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.entrypoints=https"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.tls=true"
- "traefik.http.services.pihole.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.middlewares=fail2ban@file"
unbound:
image: alpinelinux/unbound
container_name: unbound
hostname: unbound
networks:
main:
ipv4_address: 172.18.0.26
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:5334:5335"
volumes:
- ./config/unbound/:/var/lib/unbound/
- ./config/unbound/unbound.conf:/etc/unbound/unbound.conf
- ./config/unbound/unbound.conf.d/:/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/
- ./config/unbound/log/unbound.log:/var/log/unbound/unbound.log
restart: unless-stopped
Edit: After re-reading the Unbound github and their documentation it seems i may have missed some volume mounts that are key to the function of Unbound, i'll definitely have to dive deeper into it.
services:
pihole:
container_name: pihole
image: pihole/pihole:latest
ports:
# DNS Ports
- "53:53/tcp"
- "53:53/udp"
# Default HTTP Port
- "8082:80/tcp"
# Default HTTPs Port. FTL will generate a self-signed certificate
- "8443:443/tcp"
# Uncomment the below if using Pi-hole as your DHCP Server
#- "67:67/udp"
# Uncomment the line below if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP server
#- "123:123/udp"
environment:
# Set the appropriate timezone for your location from
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones, e.g:
TZ: 'America/New_York'
# Set a password to access the web interface. Not setting one will result in a random password being assigned
FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'false cat call cup'
# If using Docker's default `bridge` network setting the dns listening mode should be set to 'all'
FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
FTLCONF_dns_upstreams: '127.0.0.1#5335' # Unbound
# Volumes store your data between container upgrades
volumes:
# For persisting Pi-hole's databases and common configuration file
- './etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
# Uncomment the below if you have custom dnsmasq config files that you want to persist. Not needed for most starting fresh with Pi-hole v6. If you're upgrading from v5 you and have used this directory before, you should keep it enabled for the first v6 container start to allow for a complete migration. It can be removed afterwards. Needs environment variable FTLCONF_misc_etc_dnsmasq_d: 'true'
#- './etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
cap_add:
# See https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
# Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
- NET_ADMIN
# Required if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP client to be able to set the host's system time
- SYS_TIME
# Optional, if Pi-hole should get some more processing time
- SYS_NICE
restart: unless-stopped
unbound:
container_name: unbound
image: mvance/unbound:latest # Change to use 'mvance/unbound-rpi:latest' on raspberry pi
# use pihole network stack
network_mode: service:pihole
volumes:
# main config
- ./unbound-config/unbound.conf:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:ro
# custom config (unbound.conf.d/your-config.conf). unbound.conf includes these via wilcard include
- ./unbound-config/unbound.conf.d:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d:ro
# log file
- /srv/docker/pihole-unbound/unbound/etc-unbound/unbound.log:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.log
restart: unless-stopped
I am relatively new to docker as well tbh. I did a lot with virtualization and a lot with linux and never bothered, but I totally get the use case now ha. just an FYI, if you use docker on Windows it runs slower as it has to leverage the Windows subsystem Linux (WSL) and a slightly different docker engine (forget which one). So linux is your best bet. If you do want to use a full VM I found Qemu to be the best option for least resource usage.
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UntouchedWagons
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •yo_scottie_oh
in reply to UntouchedWagons • • •I copied the ISO file to my home directory but got the same result. Any other ideas?
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.
Mordikan
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •dengtav
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •And check the permissions of the image it self, maybe thats the issue
ormith
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •Try using flatseal to give it direct access to all files.
yo_scottie_oh
in reply to ormith • • •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:
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:
I changed it to myusername:
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 toqemu
.Any ideas?
ormith
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •No idea. Since the path is a /run/media one, what's the filesystem used there? Perhaps it's incompatible. Have you tried putting the iso in your home directory and going from there instead?
But perhaps it would work best if you just do what the documentation tells you not to do and rpm-ostree install virt-manager (and libvirt and friends, if needed)
krolden
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •Balinares
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •yo_scottie_oh
in reply to Balinares • • •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:
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.
Balinares
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •WOW, yes, your problem is almost certainly Flatpak-related. I'm surprised you even got as far as you did. Flatpak is often great but does not tend to play well with applications that need less common capabilities.
I'd recommend installing VMM in a different way if that's an option for you; I expect that will likely make your problem go away.
HayadSont
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •Virtual Machine Manager's GitHub page for its flatpak includes the following lines:
So, in this case, have you either installed libvirtd on the host^[Technically, you could also install libvirtd as a sysext.] (i.e. have you installed it with
rpm-ostree
) OR have you installed the QEMU extension as per its own instruction?If neither, then you should at least do one of them and report back.
EDIT: While what's written above remains relevant beyond Bazzite, Bazzite's ujust scripts do provide handholds for a myriad of situations including this one:
ujust
script will likely install another instance of VM Manager. As such, the flatpak is no longer needed and would only cause confusion.] the flatpak of Virtual Machine Manager)ujust
, i.e. invoke theujust setup-virtualization
commandI suppose the
ujust
way handles a bunch of gotchas you'd otherwise have to tackle yourself. And, thus, is most likely preferred over all other methods.As a side note, please consider consulting Bazzite's excellent documentation first. We'll be more than happy to help out regardless, but I'm sure there are a bunch of gems you'll be missing out on otherwise.
GitHub - flathub/org.virt_manager.virt_manager.Extension.Qemu
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