Installing Qemu on Artix(runit)

doas pacman -S qemu virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq vde2 bridge-utils openbsd-netcat libvirt libvirt-runit

doas ln -s /etc/runit/sv/libvirtd /run/runit/service

<OPTIONAL: CUSTOM LOGGING SECTION>
cd /etc/runit/sv/libvirtd/log

doas nvim run

Edit the log to read:

#!/bin/bash
exec 2>&1; set -e

[ -d /var/log/libvirtd ] || install -dm /var/log/libvirtd

exec svlogd -tt /var/log/libvirtd

Write/Quit out of file.

cd /var/log/

doas mkdir libvirtd

<END OF OPTIONAL LOGGING SECTION>

doas nvim /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf Uncomment The Following Lines:

unix_sock_group = "libvirt"
unix_sock_ro_perms = "0777"
unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

Write/Quit out of file.

Add current user to libvirt group:

doas usermod -aG libvirt <username>

Reboot.

cd /usr/share/libvirt/networks

doas touch default.xml

Copy the following into default.xml(also available in notes/virsh):

<network>
  <name>default</name>
  <uuid>9a05da11-e96b-47f3-8253-a3a482e445f5</uuid>
  <forward mode='nat'/>
  <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0'/>
  <mac address='52:54:00:0a:cd:21'/>
  <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
    <dhcp>
      <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.254'/>
    </dhcp>
  </ip>
</network>

doas virsh net-define --file default.xml

doas virsh net-start default

doas virsh net-autostart --network default

doas sv restart libvirtd

doas sv restart libvirtd/log