I am not a “Distro Hopper” but I like to try out other distributions of Linux or operating systems, for that matter. I don’t have much interest in wiping out my main system to find out I prefer openSUSE over something else. The alternative is virtual machines. I have found that QEMU/KVM seems to work better with openSUSE Tumbleweed than Virtualbox. I have previously described this issue here.
The issue I had today was that when starting a Virtual Machine Guest on may system, I received an error without any real hint as to the solution of the problem. A bunch of details that, frankly didn’t make a whole lot of sense so I searched the title of this error:
Error starting domain: Requested operation is not valid: network ‘default’ is not active
I found a reference that fixed the issue and so I made myself a little reference as another gift to future self. For you know, when I break something again.
Libvirt / QEMU / KVM Reference
Reference
Virtual Machine Manager with QEMU/KVM on openSUSE Tumbleweed
