Error Unable to connect to libvirt qemu virt-manager on Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite

Guest · January 26, 2026 at 10:28 PM

Hello guys,

I am trying to create a virtual machine using virt-managet on latest version of Fedora atomic distros Silverblue, but I am getting the bellow error:

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Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system

I installed the Virt-Manager from Gnome Software (flathub I think).

Security_OPA · February 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM

I wrote a tutorial on how to install Virt-Manager and get it working on Fedora Atomic distributions, such as Silverblue and Kinoite... this should help you to make virtmanager work on Silverblue

How to install and make Virtual Machine Manager work on Fedora immutable distroes - PC Forum Guides, Reviews and Tutorials

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