libvirt doc error - sudo pacman -S virt-manager does not install all the necessary components

[colinkeenan]

What happened?

Following the guide for Creating a libvirt Windwows VM will fail for Arch Linux (CachyOS etc) because more packages need to be installed beyond virt-manager. Here is the what I think the guide should advise:

sudo pacman -S libvirt qemu-full virt-install dnsmasq iptables-nft swtpm

where swtpm is for TPM 2.0 device needed for Windows 11.

Your FreeRDP version and where you got it from

I had to compile it myself without VAAPI because it seems CachyOS only offers VAAPI which doesn't work with wviogpudo.infith

Your Linux distribution and version

CachyOS fully updated daily

Your winapps.conf

Not part of the issue - this issue is about documentation for creating the VM

Logs

Not part of the issue - this issue is about documentation for creating the VM

Terms

• I am running the latest version.
• To the best of my knowledge, this is a bug and not a setup nor a FreeRDP problem.
• I have checked for duplicate issues.
• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct.

[oskardotglobal]

Why exactly are we advising the user to install .. dnsmasq and nftables?

[oskardotglobal]

Also, virt-manager depends on virt-install which depends on libvirt-python which depends on libvirt.

[colinkeenan]

Sorry about that. The issue remains that just installing virt-manager fails before even getting to the swtpm issue. Installing all that other stuff made it work. Maybe all that was needed was qemu-full. So, the advice should at least be:

sudo pacman -S virt-manager qemu-full swtpm