virt-manager creation of VM on F44 fails

Robert McBroom via test <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:05:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Fully updated installation of f44. Attempting to install a virtual 
machine from an iso with virt-manager gives the error messages

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Unable to complete install: 
'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not 
activate remote peer 'org.freedesktop.machine1': startup job failed'

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 67, in 
cb_wrapper
     callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
     ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 1969, in 
_do_async_install
     installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 
722, in start_install
     domain = self._create_guest(guest, meter, initial_xml, final_xml, 
doboot, transient)
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 
664, in _create_guest
     domain = self.conn.createXML(initial_xml or final_xml, 0)
   File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4594, in 
createXML
     raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not 
activate remote peer 'org.freedesktop.machine1': startup job failed

How can this be fixed?

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