On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > I tried this out myself recently, but couldn't get it to work; it > reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running". > > As far as I can tell, the problem boils down to the fact that I refuse > to have libpam-systemd installed, which means that I can't install > policykit-1, which means that I can't install libvirt-daemon-system, > which means libvirtd doesn't get run automatically. >
There's actually a bug report concerning this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765448 Paul Floyd at the bottom hacked his way to a crude (well) solution by modifying the dependency in /var/lib/dpkg/status on "policykit-1" to "policykit-1 | sysvinit-core," which allowed him to install libvirt-daemon-system. -- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan